Shahjahan Hawlader Sujan | |
Native Name: | শাহজাহান হাওলাদার সুজন |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Constituency Mp: | Brahmanbaria-6 |
Term Start: | 1994 |
Term End: | 30 March 1996[1] |
Predecessor: | ATM Wali Ashraf |
Successor: | AB Tajul Islam |
Party: | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Shahjahan Hawlader Sujan (died on 3 July 2001) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member from the Brahmanbaria-6 constituency, winning by-election in 1994 and general election in February 1996.[2] [3] He served as the vice president of Haji Mohammad Mohsin Hall Students Union of the University of Dhaka. He was assassinated in 2001.
Sujan's body was found near the Doel Square at the University of Dhaka campus on 3 July 2001, five days after his abduction near Jonaki Cinema Hall in Dhaka.[4] In 2003, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pressed charges against local BNP party member Kajol Ahmed Jalali and 11 others in the murder case.[4] In March 2004, Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced Jalali to death and four others to life imprisonment.[5] [6] In March 2007, the High Court overturned the lower court verdict as the state counsel failed to prove the murder charges.[7]