Magistrate Appointed for Salman Shah Exhumation

An executive magistrate has been appointed to oversee the exhumation of the remains of late film actor Salman Shah from his grave in Sylhet as part of an ongoing murder investigation.

Sylhet Additional District Magistrate Pinki Saha issued an office order on June 22 appointing Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate Md Parvez to supervise the exhumation, in compliance with an order of the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court issued on May 24.

A copy of the appointment order was forwarded to the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on Sunday.

According to the order, the magistrate will perform official duties during the exhumation under Section 176(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.

The exhumation is being conducted in connection with Ramna Model Police Station Case No. 18 (10)25, filed under Sections 302 and 34 of the Penal Code, to determine the exact cause of Salman Shah's death.

Earlier, the investigation officer, CID Inspector Ziaul Morshed, sought the court's permission to exhume the actor's remains, prepare an inquest report and conduct a fresh autopsy in the presence of an executive magistrate.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana approved the petition on May 24, allowing the exhumation.

However, on June 23, the same court accepted a petition seeking cancellation of the earlier exhumation order after Salman Shah's maternal uncle, Mohammad Alamgir (Kumkum), filed an application challenging the decision.

The case stems from a murder complaint filed on October 21, 2025, by Alamgir with Ramna Police Station against 11 people, including Salman Shah's wife Samira Haque. The other accused are Aziz Mohammad Bhai, Latifa Haque Lusi, actor Dawn, David, Zaved, Faruk, Ruby, A. Sattar, Saju and Rijvi Ahmed Farhad.

A day earlier, on October 20, 2025, Dhaka's Sixth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Jannatul Ferdous Ibn Haque directed Ramna Police Station to register the death as a murder case and submit an investigation report.

The court also ruled that the earlier unnatural death (UD) case had been cancelled through an order issued on October 31, 2021, paving the way for a fresh criminal investigation into the actor's death.