Molla Nazrul Islam

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Molla Nazrul Islam is a Bangladeshi police officer and deputy inspector general of Armed Police Battalion headquarters. [1] He is the former commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police responsible for Gazipur. [2] [3] He is a former special superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department. [4]

Career

Islam joined the Bangladesh police through the 20th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service in 2001. [5]

In 2013, two police officers were closed for detaining and extorting 10 million BDT from a businessman from Narail District. [6] They were closed after Narail-1 member of parliament Kabirul Haque Mukti wrote a complaint to the Ministry of Home Affairs which stated the policemen did so on the orders of Islam, then deputy police commissioner of Detective Branch north. [6] Islam claimed he stopped the associates of the lawmaker from assaulting a "minority" person in 2010 and this was retaliation. [6] Islam was transferred to the Protection and Protocol Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. [6]

Islam was the superintendent of Police of Joypurhat District in 2015. [7] He was the Deputy Commissioner of Barisal Metropolitan Police. [8]

In 2017, Islam, special superintendent of Organized Crime of the Criminal Investigation Department, detained a terror financier. [9] He detained non-profit staff members linked to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on charges of money laundering. [10] He also launched an investigation into how Bangladeshi companies were paying social media companies. [4] He detained individuals, some with links with Bangladesh Open University, who forged admission tests of the University of Dhaka. [11] He contributed to the investigation of Bangladesh Bank robbery. [12] He detained Asif Akbar on piracy charges filed by Shafiq Tuhin in 2018. [13] He also investigated the Murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi. [14]

Islam arrested a group of scammers operating under the Max Vision Group of Companies Ltd name. [15] He detained Shamim Kabir, Chairperson of Fareast Islami Multi Cooperative Society Limited, on a three billion BDT default case; money he had collected 20 thousand small investors. [16] He detained the managing director of S. A. Group Shahabuddin Alam on loan default charges of Bank Asia. [17] He detained Aziz Co-operative Commerce and Finance Credit Society chairperson on embezzling three billion BDT in funds from members of the society. [18]

Islam was promoted to additional deputy inspector general of police in August 2019. [19]

In July 2022, Islam was appointed commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police after he was promoted to deputy inspector general of police. [20] In February 2023, a trader died in the custody of Gazipur Metropolitan Police which Islam initially denied but later admitted. [21] He detained actress Mahiya Mahi under the Digital Security Act, 2018 after she criticized Gazipur Metropolitan Police and Commissioner Islam online. [22] Sub-inspector Rokon Mia filed two cases against Mahiya Mahi and her husband. [23] Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Minister of Home Affairs, defended the police action against Mahiya Mahi. [24] She secured bail on 19 March 2023. [25] He deployed 13 thousand police personnel for the Gazipur City Corporation election in 2023. [26]

On 1 June 2023, Md Mahbub Alam replaced Islam as commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police. [27]

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