Executive Magistrate of Bangladesh

The Executive Magistrates (Bengali: নির্বাহী ম্যাজিস্ট্রেট) are the magistrates of the executive organ of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The members of the Bangladesh Civil Service (Administration) also know as Bangladesh Administrative Service are appointed as the Executive Magistrates.These officials wield extensive executive and specific judicial powers within their respective jurisdictions. During periods of national emergency, they assume leadership roles at the forefront of governance. Their primary duties encompass maintaining law and order, preventing crime, ensuring the expeditious delivery of justice, overseeing elections and examinations, conducting evictions, upholding protocol and safeguarding the government’s interests through necessary means. The courts they preside over are referred to as executive courts and operate in accordance with the provisions outlined in the Code of Criminal Procedure,1898 and the Mobile Court Act, 2009. Being recruited among the most meritorious citizens of the country, people hold them in very high regard.