Md. Iqbal Bahar is a retired Bangladeshi police officer and former commissioner of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police. [1] [2] He also served as the Superintendent of Police of Dhaka District. [3]
In 2005, Bahar served as the Superintendent of Police of Bandarban District. [4]
In March 2009, he was appointed Superintendent of Police of Dhaka District. [5] At the time, he was serving as the Superintendent of Police of Jessore District. [5]
On 10 April 2016, Bahar was appointed commissioner of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police, replacing Md. Abdul Jalil Mandal. [6] During his tenure, he oversaw the arrest of Aslam Chowdhury, a joint secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in May 2016. [7] He also supervised investigations into the murder of the wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter. [8] [9]
Bahar served as commissioner until 12 July 2018, when he was replaced by Md. Mahabubur Rahman. [6] Later that year, he was promoted to Additional Inspector General of Police. [10]
He retired from service in 2019 while serving as an Additional Inspector General of Police at the Rajarbagh Telecommunications and Information Management unit. [11]
Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, Bahar was arrested in June 2025 by the Detective Branch from Bailey Road, Dhaka. [12] [11] He was later sent to jail in connection with a murder case filed over the death of protester Shahinur Begum in July 2024. [13]