Nazmul Karim Khan | |
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নাজমুল করিম খান | |
6th Police Commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police | |
Assumed office 27 August 2024 | |
Appointed by | Ministry of Home Affairs |
Preceded by | Md Mahbub Alam |
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Nazmul Karim Khan is a Bangladeshi police officer and Commissioner of the Gazipur Metropolitan Police. [2] He was sent into forced retirement by the Awami League regime in 2023 and reinstated after the fall of the regime. [3] [4] He led the investigation into the Murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu. [5] [6]
Khan was the vice-president of the Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal,the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party,unit at the Bangladesh Agricultural University. [7] He has a PhD from Japan. [8]
Khan joined Bangladesh Police in 1995 as part of the 15th batch of the Bangladesh Civil Service. [9]
In February 2007,Khan was the superintendent of police of Khulna District. He was transferred out and made deputy commissioner of the Rajshahi Metropolitan Police. [10] He had previously served as the deputy commissioner of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police. [7] He had a good relationship with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government and enjoyed good postings as a result. [7]
Khan was appointed special superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department in Dhaka in 2015. [11] He had previously been stationed at the Khulna Range Reserve Force. [12]
Khan led the 2016 investigation into the Murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu. [13] He ordered a second autopsy of Tonu and found four separate DNA samples from her clothes. [14] [15] He was serving as the special superintendent of Criminal Investigation Department's Comilla-Noakhali Division. [16]
Khan was in the Criminal Investigation Department's Rajshahi Division when he investigated the death of Raudha Athif,a Maldivian model studying at a private medical school in Bangladesh. [17]
In February 2023,while serving as the special superintendent of police in the Forensic Division of the Criminal Investigation Department,Khan was sent into forced retirement by the Awami League government of Bangladesh. [8] The government had forcibly retired Md Mahbub Hakim,Mohammad Shahidullah Chowdhury,Delwar Hossain Mia,and Md Alamgir Alam,from same 1991 batch as Khan,the previous October. [18] They had been recruited under President Hussain Muhammad Ershad and trained at the Bangladesh Military Academy. [18] Mirza Abdullahel Baki of the 15th was also retired with them. [18]
Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime,Khan was reinstated to the police force in August 2024 along with four other police officers,Ali Hossain Khan,Abdullah Al Mamun,Delwar Hossain Mia,and Zillur Rahman. [4] After his reinstatement,he was posted to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police as a deputy inspector general of police. [19] In November,he was appointed commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police. [20]
A group of students attacked the home of AKM Mozammel Haque,former Minister of Liberation War Affairs,in Gazipur. [21] The locals resisted the attempt to loot the former minister's home,injuring 13 students on 8 February 2025. [21] In response,Khan suspended the officer-in-charge of the Gazipur Sadar Police Station and apologized to the students. [22] [23] The government in response launched Operation Devil Hunt to detain those who attacked the students and Awami League supporters,criminals,militants around the country. [24] [25] Eighty-three people were detained from Gazipur in the first day of the operation. [26] Khan said the government was taking action to "to suppress the Awami fascism". [27]
In April 2025,Khan was elected president of the Bangladesh Police Service Association. [28]
Khan's brother,Rezaul Karim Khan Chunnu,was the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate for Kishoraganj Sadar. [7]