Salman Shah murder case: This time Samira’s mother banned from leaving the country

A murder case was filed at the capital's Ramna Police Station on October 21 in connection with the death of the bright star of Dhaka cinema Salman Shah. The third accused in the case is Latifa Haque Leo alias Lucy (71), the mother of the hero's ex-wife Samira Haque. This time, a Dhaka court has ordered a ban on her leaving the country.

The Ramna Police Station has written to the immigration authorities in this regard. Following the application of the investigating officer of the case, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuzzaman issued this order on October 28. Earlier, on October 27, the magistrate had ordered a ban on Salman Shah's ex-wife Samira Haque and villain Ashraful Haque Don from leaving the country. In this regard, the court ordered a ban on the departure of three people in the case.

On September 6, 1996, Salman Shah's body was found hanging from a fan in his Eskaton house in the capital. Then a long investigation began, which continued as an unnatural death case for almost three decades.

Then on October 20, Dhaka's Sixth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md. Jannatul Ferdous Ibn Haque approved the revision made by the plaintiff and ordered the case to be accepted as a murder case. In view of this, Salman Shah's maternal uncle Mohammad Alamgir filed the case at the Ramna Police Station in the capital on October 21. 11 people, including Salman Shah's wife Samira, were made accused in the case. Charges have been filed against the accused under sections 302/34 of the Penal Code.

Apart from Samira, the other accused in the case are industrialist and former film producer Aziz Mohammad Bhai, Latifa Haque Luch, villain Don, Debt, Javed, Farooq, Ruby of Mayfair Beauty Center, Abdus Chattar, Saju and Rezvi Ahmed Farhad (17). In addition, many unknown people have been made accused in the case.

In the complaint of the case, Mohammad Alamgir mentioned that on September 6, 1996, his sister Nilufar Zaman Chowdhury (Neela Chowdhury), her sister's husband Qamar Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury and their younger son Shahran Shah went to meet Salman Shah at his house in New Eskaton. When they went there, they found that Salman Shah was sleeping.

After a while, production manager Salim called and said that something had happened to Salman Shah. They quickly returned home and saw that Salman Shah was lying motionless in the bedroom and some outside women were massaging his hands and feet with oil. Sameera's relative Ruby was sitting in the next room.

Salman Shah's mother screamed and requested to take him to the hospital. On the way, they saw rope marks on Salman Shah's neck and bluish marks on his face and legs. Later, when he was taken to the Holy Family Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital, the doctor on duty said that Salman Shah had died long ago.

Mohammad Alamgir further mentioned that Salman Shah's father, Qamar Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, suspected his son's death to be murder before his death and filed an application with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on July 24, 1997. In it, he requested that the Ramna Police Station's accidental death case be treated as a murder case under Sections 302/34 of the Penal Code and that the investigation be conducted through the CID.

After Salman Shah's father's death, Alamgir is handling the case on behalf of his sister. If any of the accused in the case dies, they will be exempted from the liability of the case, subject to proof. However, the indictment states that the accused and the unidentified fugitive accused killed Salman Shah in a premeditated conspiracy.