Muhammad Nurul Huda is a Bangladeshi police officer who served as the 17th Inspector General of Police of Bangladesh Police during 2000–2001. He is a columnist at The Daily Star. He worked as a consultant of the

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Career

Huda joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 1970. He received training from the

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as an

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officer. In 1994, Huda was made the National Law Enforcement Consultant of the

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in Dhaka. He served in that position till 1997. From 7 June 2000 to 6 November 2001, Huda was the Inspector General of Police of Bangladesh Police. During the caretaker government led by chief advisor

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. Huda retired as the Secretary of the

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in 2003. Huda is a member of the advocacy group of the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute. In June 2024, he criticized the

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for posting a statement against journalists investigating corruption by police officers.

References

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