A Dhaka court on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to provide the investigation report on January 13 in the case filed over the death of actor Salman Shah in 1996.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel passed the order.
Mohammad Alamgir Kumkum, maternal uncle of actor Salman filed a case against 11 people with Ramna Police Station on October 20.
Later, Judge of Additional Metropolitan Session Judge court-6 Jannatul Ibne Haque accepted the revision petition and asked to file a murder case.
The accused were identified as Salman’s wife Samira Haque, her mother Latifa Haque Lucy, business person Aziz Mohammad Bhai, Don, Devid, Zaved, Faruk, Rubi, Abdus Sattar, Saju and Rizvi Ahmed alias Farhad.
The court also asked the immigration to take steps as the accused of the case could not flee from the country.
According to the case statement, Salman Shah was found dead at his flat in Easkaton of the capital on September 6, 1996. Later, Father of Salman Shah Kamaruddin Chowdhury, filed an unnatural death case.
On July 24, 1997, a petition was filed stating that Salman Shah was murdered.
The court later asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate the issue.
On November 3, 1997, CID gave its final report saying Salman Shah committed suicide.
Later, rejecting the CID’s claim, Kamaruddin Chowdhury filed a revision case in this regard.
Following that, the court sent the case to the Judicial Department for further investigation.
On May 19, 2003, the court sent the case to the judicial department for investigation.
On August 3, 2014, Metropolitan Magistrate Emdadul Haque submitted the judicial statement in the case terming it a suicidal case.
On February 10, 2015, Nila Chowdhury, mother of Salman filed a naraji petition in this regard.
Finally, the case was shifted to the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).
On February 25, 2020, PBI Inspector Sirajul Islam submitted the investigation report before the court.
On October 31, 2021, the court disposed of the case after accepting the case.
On June 12, 2022, a revision case was filed with the Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge saying Salman Shah was murdered.