[1] A case of murder was filed against him and others in November 1988 on the charge of killing a leader of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Islamist political party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, at the university.
[3] Ruhul Quddus started working as a lawyer on 19 April 1993 and became a member of the Bangladesh Bar Council.
[1] He served as an advisor to Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi.
[1] In April 2010, the government sought to remove Ruhul Quddus from among those accused in the murder case, and appointed him an Additional Judge to the High Court Division.
[3] Despite protests along party lines against Ruhul Quddus' appointment, citing his "controversial past", the next Chief Justice, A.B.M.