Former speaker Shirin Sharmin arrested in Lalbagh murder case

Detectives arrested former parliament
speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in Dhanmondi of the capital early this morning
(7 April) in a case filed with Lalbagh Police Stateion over the attempted
murder of a man named Ashraful.
She was detained
between 04:30am and 04:50am from her relative's residence on Dhanmondi 8/A and
was taken to the Detective Branch (DB) office in Minto Road, DB Joint
Commissioner Nasirul Islam told The Business Standard.
She was arrested
over the attempted murder of a man named Ashraful in the Lalbagh Police Station
area and will be presented in Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court
shortly, confirmed Md Morshed, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the lock-up at
the court.
Sources concerned said six cases have
been found against her so far.
The authorities
are reviewing the cases that have been filed against her, and she will be sent
to court in connection with specific charges, Joint Commissioner Nasirul said.
A few of the cases
allege her involvement in the clashes during the July Uprising. However,
details of the Lalbagh Police Station case could not be obtained immediately.
According to an Inter-Services
Public Relations list made public on 22 May 2024, soon after the fall of the
Awami League government on 5 August, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury took shelter in
the cantonment area. The list included the names of 626 individuals –
including political figures, judges, civil servants, police officers, and their
families – who were granted shelter "purely on humanitarian grounds as law
and order deteriorated in the wake of the popular uprising."
Once the situation improved, the majority of those who had taken shelter left
the cantonments within one or two days.
According to DB sources, Shirin
Sharmin later took shelter at a house in Dhanmondi 8/an area and had been in
hiding since then.
DB Additional Commissioner Shafiqul Islam
said she has been brought to the DB office and is currently in the agency's
custody.
According to
official records from the Bangladesh Parliament, Shirin served as speaker from
30 April 2013 to 2 September 2024.
She was first
elected to the position on 30 April 2013 and remained in office until her
resignation. She was also elected as a member of parliament from Rangpur-6 in
the 2014 national election.
On 27 August, a
case was filed against Shirin in Rangpur over the death of jeweller Muslim
Uddin during the July Uprising.
















