Sadik Hasan Rumi is a former Major General of

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who served as Director General of

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(DGFI) from May 2006 to May 2007.

Career

Rumi was in charge of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence during the 21 August 2004 bombing in Dhaka that tried to assassinate then opposition leader

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. His help was sought by Abdul Aziz Sarkar, the Director General of

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, to capture Tajuddin, a terrorist and brother of

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Minister

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, who was the prime suspect in the 21 August bombing. He directed Directorate General of Forces Intelligence officer Lieutenant Colonel Saiful Islam Joarder to find Tajuddin. Saiful instead provided shelter to Tajuddin and Maulana Abdus Salam, the founder of

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in a DGFI safehouse in Gulshan. After confirming the involvement of Tajuddin and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami in the attacks, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence officers including Rumi and Saiful helped Tajuddin and Abdus Salam go to Pakistan on the orders of Home Minister

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. Prime Minister Khaleda Zia tried to bury the case. Rumi was appointed President of Bangladesh Archery Association on 17 November 2005. Rumi left Bangladesh for London before the 2007 military takeover by General

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and formation of his caretaker government. He was against Major General Rezzakul Haidar Chowdhury, Director General of

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. Rumi was known as Kala Rumi among his colleagues to differentiate him from his fellow officer, Major General Syed Fatemi Ahmed Rumi, who was known as Shada Rumi. In 2008, Rumi was appointed Director General of

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and Village Defence Party. He left military service soon after. In 2011, Rumi, in a statement to a court in

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implicated

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, former Director General of National Security Intelligence, in the

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. He had reached the site with Minister of Home Affairs

and Director General of

Anwarul Ikbal by helicopter. He reported the weapons were bought from China for the

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. He had denied that he met the leader of United Liberation Front of Asom,

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, denying the report of Assistant Superintendent of Police Moniruzzaman of the Criminal Investigation Department. In 2012, Rumi told the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 in the hearing of the 21 August 2004 bombing in Dhaka case that he was refused permission by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to investigate the case.

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