A Dhaka court has deferred the deadline for submitting the investigation report against 11 accused, including actor Salman Shah's former wife Samira Haque and film villain Don, in the murder case linked to the actor's death.
On Sunday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana set 13 January as the new date, after the investigating officer, Ramna Model Police Station Inspector Atikul Islam Khandakar, failed to place the report before the court.
The other accused are Samira's mother Latifa Haque Lusy, businessman Aziz Mohammad Bhai, David, Javed, Farooq, Ruby, A. Sattar, Saju, and Rezvi Ahmed alias Farhad.
Salman Shah was found dead at his Eskaton residence on 6 September 1996. His father initially filed an unnatural death case, later seeking its conversion into a murder case in July 1997. The CID investigated and submitted a report in November 1997, ruling it a suicide.
After multiple revisions, judicial probes, and interventions by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), the case has seen decades of legal proceedings.
The current deadline postponement comes as part of the ongoing legal process, with the court now expecting the report to be submitted by mid-January.
