Jamaat secretary’s son Salman named in DB probe into Osman Hadi killing

Ajay Bengali

Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) has received shocking information in the murder of Inqilab Mancha convener Osman Hadi. After initially losing track of the murder, the DB police later uncovered the web of criminals, and the name of Salman, son of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ghulam Parwar, came to light.

Recently, it came up for discussion the most in a post on the verified Facebook page of Fatima Tasnim Juma, spokesperson for the Dhaka University branch of Inqilab Manch, on January 14.

There, Juma claimed that the plotters to assassinate Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi, one of the fighters of the July Uprising and spokesman of the Inqilab Manch, were in the front row of his funeral prayers.

Juma was essentially referring to Jamaat-e-Islami’s Islamic secretary general Ghulam Parwar, who was in the front row at Hadi’s funeral.

During his student life, Parwar was a member of the JSD Chhatra League and later the Gano Bahini, the armed wing of JSD. From that point on, he has close ties with the proletarian groups centered in the Sundarbans.

Juma wrote, “Some of those who suddenly came to their senses and planned to kill my brother (Hadi) may have been in the two or three rows in front of my brother’s funeral. We may not have understood, we may not have known, we may not have been able to do anything. May God expose all the conspiracies. We are helpless without your help.”

In a comment on that post, Zuma said, “The court hearing is tomorrow. The charge sheet only lists Masud and Bappi as directly involved in the murder. Everything after the incident is there. Nothing before. I don’t know if it’s possible to find the masterminds or if they are deliberately not allowing it.”

He further said, “Who are they, what kind of power do they have that we are asked to accept that it is impossible for them to ever be brought forward? Are they stronger than Hasina?”

How the Hadi murder was turned around

The Descent, a news outlet, attempted to find out through initial investigation that Faisal Karim Masud was involved through a video posted on Facebook by freelance journalist Zulkarnain Sayer. The Descent’s editor is Qadruddin Shishir, who is known to media workers in Bangladesh as a narrative builder for Jamaat-e-Islami.

Within just two hours of the incident, Faisal’s photo and motorcycle were identified, which raised suspicions as to how they had obtained the information so quickly or whether the murder was carried out to create a narrative using them.

The Descent reports that Faisal Karim and Alamgir were riding a motorcycle and shot each other. It is claimed that Alamgir was riding the bike and Faisal Karim was sitting behind him and fired from a pistol.

But the first thing that struck the DB investigation team was the Faisal-Alamgir bike, which was crossing the right side of Osman Hadi’s bike with a motorcycle.

But when Osman Hadi was admitted to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College, it was discovered during first aid that he had been shot below his left ear, which would have been from the right side if he had been shot from Faisal’s bike.

Misbah, the assistant who brought Osman Hadi to the hospital, and Dr. Mostaq Ahmed, the resident surgeon at the emergency department, gave the same information to the media that day.

Misbah, who took Osman Hadi to the hospital, said that while he was riding a rickshaw through the Vijaynagar culvert area of ​​Motijheel after Friday prayers, two men came on a motorcycle and opened fire on him. He was shot below his left ear. They fled after shooting him. Osman Hadi was then taken to the hospital in a rickshaw.

And Osman Hadi, who was given emergency treatment by Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), resident surgeon Dr. Mostaq Ahmed said that Hadi was in a critical condition when he was brought to the emergency department. Later, he was given CPR. The bullet entered his left jaw and entered his head.

However, surprisingly, no Bangladeshi media outlet has conducted an investigative report on why and how the bullet entered the head through the left jaw, because Misbah, who was brought to the hospital, was sitting to Hadi’s left.

 

 

How Salman’s name was mentioned in the DB investigation

After the DB started the shadow investigation, suspicions arose for the first time when it analyzed the position of Osman Hadi’s bullets and the position of Faisal Karim’s bike. Then the DB picked up Misbah, who was brought to the hospital, as a suspect. Because immediately after Hadi was shot, Misbah was seen blaming BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas in a live video.

DB sources say that Faisal Karim’s job was to provide backup, he did not shoot Hadi directly, but Misbah himself shot Hadi. At that time, Faisal fired blank shots to create smoke and escape, quickly leaving the scene.

During interrogation, Misbah admitted that he was a Shibir worker and that his party, Islami Chhatra Shibir, had ordered him to keep a constant watch on Hadi and kill him at the right time. Salman, the son of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ghulam Parwar, was in contact with him on behalf of Chhatra Shibir.

Salman also got his start in underground armed politics mainly because he was the son of Parwar, a former member of the People’s Army and secretary of Jamaat.

Even after Hadi was buried, Salman was seen crying next to the grave, which also caught the attention of intelligence officials.

 

When the DB police got the news that Misbah was in custody for questioning, Parwa’s son Salman and the then DU secretary of the camp, SM Farhad, appeared. They spoke to Home Affairs Advisor Jahangir Alam and, on his instructions, released Misbah.

And if the incident was leaked, the police were threatened with being exposed by the International Crimes Tribunal, said an inspector-rank officer of the DB Police who was nearby at the time of the incident.

Since then, the investigation into the murder of Osman Hadi has been stalled, as to how, by whom, and why the murder was committed.

DB sources say that in order to shift the blame for this incident, one person after another had to be implicated in the murder.

It is worth mentioning that on December 12, the day after the announcement of the schedule for the 13th National Parliament Election and Referendum, Osman Hadi was seriously injured in a gunfight with two motorcycle-borne assailants in the Box Culvert Road area of ​​Bijoynagar in the capital. He was shot in the head while riding a rickshaw. He was first admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, and later to Evercare Hospital when his condition deteriorated. He was then sent to Singapore for advanced treatment, where he died at 9:45 pm on December 18.

A case was filed at Paltan Police Station in this incident. After that case, the parents of the main accused shooter Faisal were arrested. However, the police have not yet been able to arrest the main accused Faisal and his accomplice. It was believed that they had fled to India. Finally, the police admitted the matter today.