Court accepts plea against order to exhume Salman Shah's remains

A court here today ordered the registration of a plea seeking cancellation of its earlier order to exhume the remains of renowned film actor Salman Shah from his grave.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana passed the order as Salman's maternal uncle Mohammad Alamgir (Kumkum) filed the plea in this regard.

The court also set July 23 for filing probe report in a murder case filed against 11 people, including Salman's wife Samira Haque.

The court on May 20 passed the order to exhume the remains of popular film star Salman Shah for preparing an inquest report and conducting an autopsy, as part of efforts to determine the actual cause of his death.

On October 21, 2025, Salman Shah's maternal uncle Mohammad Alamgir filed a case against 11 people, including Salman's wife Samira Haque, with the capital's Ramna Police Station under sections 302 and 34 of the Penal Code. The other accused are: Aziz Mohammad Bhai, Samira's mother Latifa Haque Lusi, actor Dawn, David, Zaved, Faruk, Ruby, A Sattar, Saju and Rijvi Ahmed Farhad.

Earlier on October 20, 2025, Dhaka's Sixth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Jannatul Ferdous Ibn Haque ordered the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Ramna Police Station to treat the case filed over the death of Chowdhury Mohammad Shahriar (Emon), popularly known as Salman Shah, as a murder case and submit a report in this regard.

The court, in its order, said that the unnatural death (UD) case was hereby cancelled by an order passed on October 31, 2021.