Police to exhume Latifur’s son Arshad’s body

Police are set to exhume the body of Arshad Waliur Rahman, the son of Transcom Group founder Latifur Rahman, as part of investigations into a murder allegation brought by Arshad’s younger sister against her elder sister Simeen Rahman.

Zahangir Alam, a superintendent of police at the PBI, said that a court granted Gulshan police permission to dig up Arshad’s remains for autopsy.

“We will now apply for a magistrate from the court. On the date fixed by the court, the body will be exhumed in the presence of the magistrate and sent to the hospital’s morgue for a post-mortem examination,” he said.

Earlier on March 23, Shahzreh Huq, younger daughter of Transcom Group founder Latifur Rahman, has filed a police case accusing her sister and group CEO Simeen Rahman of killing their brother Arshad Waliur Rahman.

The others accused in the case are Simeen’s son Zaraif Ayaat Hossain, the head of the company’s strategy and transformation, Murad Hossain, 50, senior executive of medical affairs at Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Limited, its Executive Director of Marketing and Sales Mohammad Mujahidul Islam, 55, Transcom’s Executive Director of Corporate Affairs Fokhruzzaman Bhuiyan, 60, Chief Financial Officer Kamrul Hassan, 61, executives of corporate affairs Selina Sultana, 45, and KH Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, 50, Arshad’s chef Rafique, 55, chauffeur Mirazul, and Md Zahid Hossain, 55. Zahid’s details were not given in the case.

Shahzreh brought charges under sections 302 and 34 of the Penal Code in the case that deal with murder and committing crime in a group.

She alleged that behaviours of Simeen and the others behaviour indicate they colluded to poison or strangle Arshad to deprive other heirs of Latifur in a planned manner.

Arshad, son of Latifur, died in June 2023.

Banaj Kumar Majumder, the chief of the Police Bureau of Investigation, said on Wednesday that they were tasked with investigating the case filed by Shahzreh Huq at Gulshan Police Station on Mar 21 against Simeen and 10 others amid a rift over the company’s ownership.