Court imposes travel ban on prime suspect in Inqilab Mancha leader Osman Hadi murder case

A Dhaka court has imposed a travel ban on Faisal Karim Masud, the prime accused in the murder of Inqilab Mancha coordinator Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, and his wife, Shaheda Parvin Samia.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Mohammad Shahjahan Kabir issued the order on Monday following an application filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Assistant Director Md. Saifur Rahman. ACC lawyer Delwar Jahan Rumi confirmed the development.

The commission’s application stated that an ongoing ACC investigation into Masud and his associates has uncovered suspicious financial transactions totaling 1.27 billion taka across their bank accounts. Investigators requested the travel ban citing credible information that the suspects might attempt to flee the country to evade the ongoing probe.

Despite the court order, Masud is currently incarcerated in India. He was arrested on March 8 by the West Bengal Police Special Task Force near the Banga border, where he remains in custody along with an associate, Alamgir Hossain.

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Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, who was campaigning as an independent candidate for the Dhaka-8 parliamentary constituency, was shot by unidentified assailants on December 12 while traveling in a rickshaw on Kalvert Road in Purana Paltan. He was later transferred to Singapore for advanced medical treatment, where he died on December 18.

Following the attack, Abdullah Al Jaber, the then-member secretary of Inqilab Mancha, filed an attempted murder case at Paltan Police Station on December 14, which was later upgraded to a murder case upon Hadi’s death.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch initially filed a charge sheet against 17 individuals, including Masud, on January 6. However, the plaintiff filed a formal objection to the findings, prompting the court to transfer the case to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further inquiry. The CID is scheduled to submit its supplementary report on September 27.