Dhaka: A court here today set December 7 for submitting a probe report in a case lodged against 11 individuals over the murder of Bangladeshi movie star Salman Shah in 1996. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuzzaman passed the order, accepting the first information report of the case.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, Salman Shah's maternal uncle, Mohammad Alamgir, earlier in the day filed the case with the capital's Ramna Police Station under sections 302/34 of the Penal Code. The 11 accused in the case include Salman Shah's widow Samira Haque, Aziz Mohammad Bhai, Samira's mother Latifa Haque Lusi, actor Dawn, David, Zaved, Faruk, Ruby, A. Sattar, Saju, and Rijvi Ahmed Farhad.
On October 20, Dhaka's 6th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Md Jannatul Ferdous Ibn Haque, ordered the officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station to treat the case filed over the death of Chowdhury Mohammad Shahriar, popularly known as Salman Shah, as a murder case and submit a report in this regard. The court further clarified in its order that the unnatural death case was cancelled and revoked by an order passed on October 31, 2021.