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Shahudul Haque is a former Inspector General of Police of Bangladesh Police during 2003–2004. Earlier, he was an Army officer who later joined Bangladesh Police.


Career

Huda served in the Pakistan Army during the
Bangladesh Liberation War The Bangladesh Liberation War (, ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, was an War, armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalism, Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan, which res ...
. He was one of 17 former Army officers recruited into Bangladesh Police by President
Ziaur Rahman Ziaur Rahman (19 January 193630 May 1981) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Bangladesh from 1977 until Assassination of Ziaur Rahman, his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures of t ...
.


Dismissal

In August 2003,
AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik Abul Hossain Mohammed Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik is a retired judge of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh. He drew controversy after submitting verdicts in cases after his retirement, making questionable remarks on television as well as crimi ...
, an additional judge of the High Court, issued a notice of query on the then IGP Haque while drawing contempt proceedings against five police personnel. According to Manik, a traffic policeman on duty did not salute, while his car passed in the Farmgate area in Dhaka earlier in June the same year. Haque, in his clarification letter, mentioned that "a traffic policeman on duty is not obliged to salute anybody but a discretion is left to him to pay compliment to anybody without risking traffic accident. The duty of a driver is to obey the direction of the traffic policeman and he has no right to conduct a research as to whether the direction given by the traffic policeman is right or wrong". This response triggered the High Court to put contempt charge against Haque himself. In January 2004, the High Court found Haque guilty of gross misconduct in the contempt case against the judge as well as the court and fined him Tk 2,000. Later on 8 December, he was convicted of contempt of court after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal petition against the conviction. According to the legal experts, Haque stood dismissed from service since the relevant law says, "a public servant loses job for committing offences punishable with death, transportation or imprisonment for a term exceeding six months or with fines exceeding Tk 1,000 or both." Government removed Haque from the IGP position on 14 December 2004 and put
Ashraful Huda Ashraful Huda is a former officer of the Bangladesh Police who served as the Inspector General of Police during 2004–2005. Ashraful joined the Pakistani army as a commissioned officer in 1967 and served in Bangladesh army after independence. C ...
as the acting IGP. Two days later, the government appointed Huda as the new IGP and the
President of Bangladesh President of Bangladesh (POB), officially the President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is the head of state of Bangladesh and commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The role of the president has changed three times since ...
pardoned Haque by exempting him from the purview of Section 3 of Public Servants (Dismissal on Conviction) Ordinance, 1985.


2004 Dhaka grenade attack case

In April 2004, Haque's term for the IGP office was extended for one more year. During his term, the incident of
2004 Dhaka grenade attack The 2004 Dhaka grenade attack took place at an anti-terrorism rally organised by Awami League in Bangabandhu Avenue (now Shaheed Abrar Fahad Avenue) on 21 August 2004. The attack left 24 dead and more than 500 injured. The attack was carried ou ...
occurred in August 2004 that killed 19 and injured over 200 others. In October, Haque mentioned that "no international link has been found to the recent spate of bomb blasts", a claim that contradicted the government's one-member judicial commission, which hinted at the link of a "foreign enemy" to the attack. In July 2011, 30 people were added to the supplementary charge sheets of the grenade attack case which included Haque's name. Later in December, Haque had appealed to a Dhaka court to discharge him from the cases but it was rejected. In March 2012, Haque was charged for assisting the killers financially and administratively to execute the attack and faced up to life-term imprisonment. He was granted bail the next month. In October 2018, Haque and another former IGP,
Ashraful Huda Ashraful Huda is a former officer of the Bangladesh Police who served as the Inspector General of Police during 2004–2005. Ashraful joined the Pakistani army as a commissioned officer in 1967 and served in Bangladesh army after independence. C ...
, were sentenced to two years in jail and fined Tk 50,000 for harbouring the offenders.


References

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