Hadi murder: Court sets Sept 27 for further probe report

A court on Thursday set September 27 for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit a report on its further investigation into the murder of Inqilab Mancha spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam passed the order as the CID failed to submit the report on Thursday.

On January 15, 2026, the court ordered the CID to conduct a further investigation after the complainant expressed dissatisfaction with the probe and filed a naraji petition against the charge sheet submitted by the Detective Branch (DB) of police.

DB Inspector Foysal Ahmed submitted the charge sheet on January 6 against 17 accused, including alleged shooter Foysal Karim Masud and his parents, Humayun Kabir and Hashi Begum.

According to the case statement, Foysal Karim Masud and Alamgir Hossain opened fire on Hadi while he was travelling in a battery-run auto-rickshaw on December 12, 2025, before fleeing the scene.

Inqilab Mancha Member Secretary Abdullah Al Zaber filed the case with Paltan Model Police Station on December 14.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Siddiq Azad on December 20 ordered the inclusion of Section 302 of the Penal Code, which deals with murder, after Hadi died on December 18. The case had initially been filed as an attempted murder case.