Salman Shah -Photo : Collected

DHAKA, Oct 21, 2025 (BSS) – A court here today set December 7 for submitting probe report in a case lodged against 11 over the murder of Bangla movie star Salman Shah in 1996.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuzzaman passed the order, accepting first information report of the case.

Earlier in the day, Salman Shah's maternal uncle Mohammad Alamgir filed the case with the capital's Ramna Police Station under sections 302 / 34 of the Penal Code.

The 11 accused are: 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.

Earlier 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 (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 case was hereby cancelled and revoked by order passed on October 31, 2021.