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DHAKA, Jan 13, 2026 (BSS) - A court here today set February 22 for submitting
a probe report in a case lodged over the murder of the popular movie
superstar Salman Shah.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana passed the order as the
investigation officer (IO) failed to submit the report today.
On October 21, 2025, Salman Shah's maternal uncle Mohammad Alamgir filed the
case against 11 people, including Salman's wife Samira Haque, with the
capital's Ramna Police Station under sections 302 and 34 of the Penal Code.
The other accused are: Aziz Mohammad Bhai, Latifa Haque Lusi, Dawn, David,
Zaved, Faruk, Ruby, A Sattar, Saju and Rijvi Ahmed Farhad.
Earlier, on October 20, 2025, 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 (Emon), popularly known as Salman Shah, as a murder case and submit
a report in this regard.
The court, in its order, said that the unnatural death (UD) case was hereby
cancelled and revoked by order passed on October 31, 2021.
According to the case statement, on September 6, 1996, Salman Shah's mother
Nilufar Zaman Chowdhury (Neela Chowdhury), father now late Kamar Uddin Ahmed
Chowdhury, and their younger son Shahraan Shah went to Salman's residence at
New Eskaton to meet him.
After arriving at the residence, his wife, Samira, and a domestic aide named
Abul informed them that Salman was sleeping. At that time, film producer
Siddique had also gone to meet him. Hearing that Salman was asleep, his
parents told Samira that they would meet him on their way to Sylhet.
Later that day, production manager Selim phoned Kamar Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury,
saying that something had happened to Salman and urged them to go to his
house immediately.
When Neela, her husband, and their younger son reached the house, they found
Salman lying motionless in his bedroom, while a few unknown women were
rubbing oil on his hands and feet. In another room, Samira's relative Ruby --
who ran the nearby Mayfair Beauty Parlour -- was sitting.
At that moment, Salman's mother screamed and urged them to take her son to
the hospital immediately. One of Samira's acquaintances reportedly shouted at
Salman's mother, saying, "You get out of my house."
Salman's parents quickly took him towards Holy Family Hospital, where they
noticed rope marks on his neck and his face and legs turning blue. His mother
insisted on taking him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors
declared Salman Shah dead upon arrival, saying he had died some time earlier.
Following the incident, Kamar Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury initially filed an
unnatural death case. The following year, on July 24, 1997, Salman Shah's
father filed a petition with the court, bringing murder allegations and
seeking to register the case under Section 302 of the Penal Code.
"As Salman's father -- my brother-in-law -- has passed away, I am pursuing
the case on behalf of my sister under the power of attorney vested in me,"
the complainant said.
