Md. Iqbal Bahar

Last updated

Md. Iqbal Bahar is a retired police officer and former commissioner of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police. [1] [2] He is the former Superintendent of Police of Dhaka District. [3]

Career

In 2005, Bahar was the superintendent of police of Bandarban District. [4]

In March 2009, Bahar was appointed Superintendent of Police of Dhaka District. [5] 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] He oversaw the arrest of Aslam Chowdhury, joint secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in May 2016. [7] He supervised the high-profile murder case of the wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter. [8] [9] He served till 12 July 2018 before being replaced by Md. Mahabubur Rahman. [6] He was then promoted to Additional Inspector General of Police. [10]

Bahar retired in 2019 while serving as the Additional Inspector General of Police at the Rajarbagh Telecommunications and Information Management. [11]

After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, Bahar was arrested from Bailey Road, Dhaka in June 2025 by the Detective Branch. [12] [11] He was sent to jail in a murder case filed over the death of a protester, Shahinur Begum, in July 2024. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "10 killed in stampede". The Daily Star. 2017-12-19. Archived from the original on 2024-08-17. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  2. ↑ "Former additional IGP Iqbal Bahar sent to jail in murder case". Bdnews24.com . Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  3. ↑ "RMG workers go on rampage". The Daily Star. 27 July 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "Two more BDR battalions for Naikkhanchhari". The Daily Star. 4 September 2005. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Major reshuffle in police admin". The Daily Star. 2009-03-15. Archived from the original on 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  6. 1 2 "Chattogram Metropolitan Police". www.cmp.gov.bd. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  7. ↑ "BNP leader Aslam Chy arrested". The Daily Star. 2016-05-15. Archived from the original on 2024-05-27. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  8. ↑ "Charge sheet soon, but key suspect still 'on the run'". The Daily Star. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  9. ↑ "SP's wife killing: Man 'seen in CCTV footage' held". The Daily Star. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  10. ↑ "22 top cops promoted". The Daily Star. 2018-11-07. Archived from the original on 2023-06-16. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  11. 1 2 "DB detains ex-addl IGP Iqbal Bahar from Dhaka". The Business Standard. 2025-06-20. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  12. ↑ "Former additional IGP Iqbal Bahar detained". Prothomalo. 2025-06-20. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  13. ↑ "Ex-additional IGP Iqbal Bahar sent to jail in Shahinur Begum Murder case". The Business Standard. 2025-06-21. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.