Salman Shah committed suicide: PBI

Popular Dhallywood actor Salman Shah killed himself due to family dispute over his infatuation for one of the most popular silver screen actresses at the time, Shabnoor, revealed the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).

Deputy inspector general of PBI read out the investigation report at a press briefing held at its office on Monday.

The popular movie star in the 90s mysteriously died on 6 September 1996 at the age of 25. His father Kamaruddin Chowdhury had filed an unnatural death case which he later turned into a murder case when a certain Rizvi Ahmed was arrested from the house of Salman’s mother, who said he had killed Salman with the help of Salman’s wife and mother-in-law and eight other accomplices.

Rizvi, however, later disowned his confession given before the police.

The Detective Branch, Criminal Investigation Department of police (CID), and a judicial probe body investigated the case separately and submitted their reports that Salman’s death was a case of unnatural death, which Salman Shah’s family rejected.

Rejecting the CID report, Salman father Kamaruddin Ahmed Chowdhury filed a revision petition in the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court.

The case was sent  for judicial inquiry on 19  May 2003. About 12 years later, on 3 August 2014, a judicial inquiry report was submitted where Salman Shah’s death was referred to as ‘suicide’. Salman Shah’s mother Neela Chowdhury filed a revision petition in the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on 19 April 2015. On 21 August 2016, Judge Imrul Kayes of Dhaka’s Special Judge-6  directed the PBI to investigate the case.

DIG Manoj Kumar Majumder said, “ We could not find any evidence of murder of Salman Shah in the PBI investigation. He committed suicide due to family feud and emotional causes.”