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DHAKA, June 21, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today ordered to send former Additional Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Iqbal Bahar to jail in connection with hawker Shahinur Begum Murder case of Jatrabari Thana.
Police produced the former Additional IGP before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) with a prayer for confining him into jail till the end of investigation into the case.
After hearing the petition, Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Jewel Rana, on behalf of the CMM, ordered to send him to jail custody.
Iqbal Bahar was arrested by a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of police from the city’s Baily road area on Friday evening. He went on retirement from the police service in 2019 as Additional IGP (Telecom).
According to the case-Shahinur Begum, a hawker of Jatrabari Kajla area was shot at by the accused persons on July 22 while she was supplying drinking water to the protesters of the anti-discrimination students’ movement.
She was taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in a critical condition on that day. She succumbed to her injuries there on August 31.
Habeja Akhter, daughter of the victim, filed a case with Jatrabari Thana accusing 297 people including the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on November 14 last year. Iqbal Bahar was the accused number 26 in that case.
