The 23 newly appointed additional judges of the High Court took the oath of office on Wednesday.

Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed administered the oaths of the judges at the Supreme Court (SC) Judges' Lounge at 11:00 am. SC Registrar General Aziz Ahmed Bhuiyan conducted the oath ceremony.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin appointed the judges to the High Court division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday night.

The new additional judges are-- Md Golam Martuza Mazumder, Syed Enayet Hossain, Md Monsur Alam, Syed Jahed Mansur, KM Rasheduzzaman Raja, Md Zabid Hossain, Mubina Asaf, Qazi Waliul Islam, Ainun Nahar Siddiqua, Md Abdul Mannan, Tamanna Rahman, Md Shafiul Alam Mahmud, Md Hamidur Rahman, Nasrin Akter, Sathika Hossain, Syed Mohammad Tajrul Hossain, Md Toufik Inam, Eusuf Abdullah Sumon, Sheikh Tahsin Ali, Foyej Ahmed, Md Sogir Hossain, Shikder Mahmudur Razee and Debashish Roy Chowdhury.