After 29 years, the Truth behind the death of Iconic Bangla movie star Salman Shah has come to light, who died almost 29 years ago. Eleven people, including his wife Samira Haque have been charged with planning the murder of this famous movie star.
Mohammad Alamgir (Kumkum), Salman Shah’s maternal uncle, filed the case at the Ramna Police Station in Dhaka under sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Penal Code alleging his wife Samira including 10 namely namely Aziz Mohammad Bhai, Latifa Haque Lusi, Dawn, David, Zaved, Faruk, Ruby, A Sattar, Saju, and Rijvi Ahmed Farhad.
Md. Jannatul Ferdous Ibn Haque, the 6th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge in Dhaka, told the Ramna Police on October 20 to handle the case surrounding Salman Shah’s death as a murder case and send in a full report. The court also said that the inquiry into the unnatural death, which had been ended by an order in 2021, would be reopened.
The case statement says that on September 6, 1996, Salman Shah’s family—his mother Nilufar Zaman Chowdhury (Neela Chowdhury), father Kamar Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury (who has since passed away), and younger brother Shahraan Shah—went to his house in New Eskaton. When they got there, Salman’s wife Samira and a maid named Abul told them that he was sleeping.
Later, Siddique, the producer of the movie, called Kamar Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury and told him that something had happened to Salman and that he should come right away. When they got to Salman’s house, they found him laying still in his chamber. There were reports that several unknown women were rubbing oil on his hands and feet. Ruby, a relative of Samira’s who ran a beauty salon nearby, was in another room.
Salman’s mother made sure that her son went to the hospital. But a friend of Samira’s is said to have yelled, “Get out of my house.” His parents took him to Holy Family Hospital right away, where physicians said he was already dead. They saw indicators that he had been strangled, like bruises on his neck and blue skin on his face and legs. When they got to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, doctors confirmed that he had been deceased for a while.
After the event, Kamar Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury first filed a case saying that someone had died in an unnatural way. But on July 24, 1997, he went to court and formally charged someone with murder, asking that the case be recorded under Section 302 of the Penal Code.
The person who filed the complaint says he is doing so on behalf of his sister because Salman’s father, who filed the petition in the first place, is no more.
