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Sharif Osman bin Hadi · শরীফ ওসমান বিন হাদী
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Time elapsed
308 days since the attack on Sharif Osman bin Hadi on
302 days since Hadi’s death on
Counted in whole days on the Dhaka calendar, as of . The counts measure time only; the case record is the one last reviewed below.
- about 2:25 p.m., Dhaka time, as recorded
The time since the attack and since his death, set beside what the justice process has done, what it has not yet done, and what remains unanswered — from the latest reviewed record.
- Further investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), ordered by the court
- · Scheduled, not yet held
Where the case stands now
Derived from the case record as of its last review. Today’s date is used only to count the days and to tell which dates are still to come.
- Further investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), ordered by the court, since .
- Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Bangladesh Police
- Further investigation ordered; the court is awaiting the CID’s reportLatest hearing on record: , Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka, Magistrate Jashita Islam.
- Not begun. No charges have been framed and no trial is on the record.
- The CID’s further-investigation report, owed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Bangladesh Police: not yet submitted, according to the latest record.
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Date set for the CID’s further-investigation report. Not yet held. [1]
What has happened
The case has moved. These are its major milestones only, in the order they happened; the full record of every hearing is on the Court Proceedings page.
Shot while campaigning in Dhaka-8
· Investigation · Reported [5, 1]
A case is filed at Paltan Model Police Station
· Life · Official statement [6, 7]
Dies at Singapore General Hospital
The court adds the charge of murder
· Investigation · Reported [9, 1]
The Detective Branch submits a charge sheet against 17 accused
The complainant objects to the charge sheet
· Court · Reported [5, 12, 10]
The court orders further investigation by the CID
· Court · Reported [1]
The report is not submitted; the court sets 3 November
At each of the 12 hearings on record since further investigation was ordered, the report was not submitted and the court set a new date.
How these milestones are known: Reported: 7 · Official statement: 1. None is yet established by a court document the project holds.
A reported procedural fact establishes that a filing, order or hearing took place as reported. It does not establish the truth of any allegation made in it. No court document is yet held by the project, so none of these entries is classed as a court record.
The procedural path
The procedural steps from the attack to a court’s judgment, and where this case has reached. States are given in words; there is no measure of progress.
The attack
Hadi is shot in Dhaka; he dies six days later.
Completed ·
Case filed
The complaint is recorded by the police and the investigation begins.
Completed ·
Charge of murder added
After his death, the court adds the offence of murder to the case.
Completed ·
Police charge sheet
The investigators place their report, naming the accused, before the court.
Completed ·
Further investigation
On the complainant’s objection, the court orders a further investigation.
Current stage · since
Further-investigation report
The investigating agency submits its report to the court.
Not submitted
The court takes cognizance
The court decides on the police report and takes judicial notice of the offence.
Not reached
Charges framed
The trial court frames charges against the accused it sends for trial.
Not reached
Trial
Witnesses testify and the evidence is tested in court.
Not begun
Judgment
A court decides guilt or innocence, by a judgment at the end of the trial.
Not reached
What has not yet happened
Statements that are true on the latest reviewed record. Each is removed only when a record shows that the step has happened.
The CID has not submitted its further-investigation report to the court.
The reports held record no decision by the court to accept the charge sheet or to take cognizance of the offence.
The case is not recorded as sent to a Speedy Trial Tribunal.
The law adviser said on 22 December 2025 that the trial would be held under the Speedy Trial Tribunal Act, 2002; no later report records the transfer. [13]
No charges have been framed against any accused.
No trial has begun, and no witness has testified at a trial.
There is no verdict. No one has been convicted or acquitted in this case.
Where the people in the case stand
Counts derived from the individual, dated status records of the people the reports name. They are not counts of all the accused.
- None — no trial has begun
- None — no court has delivered a verdict
The reports held do not name every accused, and no report gives a current count of all the accused who are in custody, at large or on bail. A total would mix current and historical counts, so none is given. Being named, arrested or charged is not a finding of guilt.
What remains unanswered
Only questions the record itself leaves open, each with the reason it is open. The project does not answer them by inference. Reviewed .
What has the CID’s further investigation found?
Why it is open: Its report has not been submitted to the court. At the latest hearing on record, the court set a new date for it. [1]
Have all the accused been apprehended?
Why it is open: The Dhaka Tribune reported in June 2026 that six accused were absconding, counting the two held in India. [16] No later count appears in the reports held.
Has a forensic link between the recovered pistols and the shooting been established?
Why it is open: An investigation source said in December 2025 that ballistic testing would confirm it, and the Detective Branch said in January that forensic reports were among its evidence. [25, 14] No such report has been published.
What is disputed
Claims on which one record contradicts another. Each side is listed with its source; neither is preferred.
The charge sheet accuses 17 people of involvement in the killing, and police describe Foysal Karim Masud as the alleged shooter. No court has tested these accusations.
Alleged — an allegation by Detective Branch, Dhaka Metropolitan Police, in the charge sheet; it has not been established.
Records that originate or support it
- Charge sheet against 17 accused (sets out the accusation; does not establish it)
- Detective Branch briefing on the charge sheet (the police description of the alleged shooter)
Records that refute it
- Foysal Karim Masud’s denial at a court in West Bengal (his denial, as reported)
- Video presented as a denial by Foysal Karim Masud (a denial whose authenticity is not established)
Current research status: open. No record resolves it, and no court has ruled on it.
Police say two suspects crossed into India; Indian authorities deny it
Disputed — the accounts conflict, and neither is preferred.
Records that originate or support it
- Dhaka police account of the suspects’ crossing into Meghalaya (the Dhaka police account, as reported)
- Dhaka police account of detentions in Meghalaya (a further Dhaka police account; not confirmed by Indian authorities)
- Statement of Md Aminul Islam under section 164 (as reported; the recorded statement is not held)
- News On AIR (All India Radio), news report [26] (on the route through the Meghalaya border only; not on the timing or help)
- The Sentinel (Assam), news report [19] (on the route through the Meghalaya border only, as reported)
Records that refute it
- Border Security Force and Meghalaya Police response (the denial by India’s Border Security Force and Meghalaya Police)
Current research status: open. No record resolves it, and no court has ruled on it.
That a suspect crossed a border, or was arrested abroad, is not evidence that any government was involved in the attack. No investigating agency has alleged such involvement in any report held, and the project makes no such claim.
What happens next
The next date a court has set, as it was set. A scheduled date is not an outcome: it is recorded as held only when a report of the day has been checked.
- Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka
- Date set for the CID’s further-investigation report
- , by Magistrate Jashita Islam
- — not yet held. No outcome is assumed.
- As reported [1]
Justice and due process
A candidate for parliament was shot in the street during an election campaign and died six days later. Whether, and how, those responsible are held to account is a matter of public interest, and the legal process that decides it should be recorded accurately and in full.
Justice, on this page, means due process: an investigation that follows the evidence, a fair trial, accountability where a court establishes it, and protection for anyone wrongly accused. It does not mean declaring anyone guilty before a court has decided. Remembrance does not replace evidence.
Justice has not been forgotten.
This record will continue to be updated as verified investigative and court developments occur.
Case record last reviewed .
Sources and method
- How the record is compiled
- Each police and court action is entered from a report of it, checked against the publication on the review date, and dated by when it happened rather than when it was reported. The same record drives this page and the timeline.
- How claims are classified
- Every fact carries how it is known: an official statement, a report, an allegation (with who makes it), or a dispute (with every side). “Court record” is reserved for facts checked against a court document the project holds; none is held yet. There are no scores or percentages.
- How court records are used
- A court record establishes what the court did — a filing, an order, a hearing — not the truth of the allegations before it. A scheduled date is shown as scheduled until a report of the day records what happened.
- How corrections work
- Corrections are made openly: the corrected fact is shown with a note of what was said before. Earlier records that could not be sourced are listed below as not published, with the reason.
Case record last reviewed . Anyone named on this page, or anyone with a document or a correction, can ask for a fact to be reviewed: see corrections and right of reply and the research methodology.
Sources
- 1Osman Hadi murder: Court defers submission of supplementary report to 3 November
The Business Standard · 27 September 2026 · News report · tbsnews.net
News archive record and context
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the case stands now” - 2Hadi ‘received death threats from foreign numbers’
bdnews24.com · 12 December 2025 · News report · bdnews24.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 3Who was Bangladeshi Radical Leader, Sharif Osman Hadi?
Deccan Chronicle · News profile · deccanchronicle.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 4Who was Sharif Osman Hadi; why is Bangladesh on fire over his death?
Al Jazeera · 19 December 2025 · News profile · aljazeera.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 5CID’s further probe report into Hadi murder case on 9 Feb
The Business Standard · 3 February 2026 · News report · tbsnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 6MFA Spokesperson’s Comments on the Death of Mr Sharif Osman Hadi, 18 December 2025
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore · 18 December 2025 · Official statement · mfa.gov.sg
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 7Bangladesh holds state funeral for slain youth leader amid tight security
Reuters · 20 December 2025 · News report · reuters.com
News archive record and context
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 8Court orders to add section 302 of Penal Code to Hadi murder case
BSS · 21 December 2025 · News report · bssnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 9Cognizance hearing on Hadi murder charge-sheet on Jan 15
BSS · 12 January 2026 · News report · bssnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 10Court sets 27 Sept for further probe report in Hadi murder case
The Business Standard · 20 August 2026 · News report · tbsnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 11Further probe report into Hadi murder case on Feb 15
BSS · 9 February 2026 · News report · bssnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 12Hadi murder probe report deferred for 6th time
Dhaka Tribune · 9 February 2026 · News report · dhakatribune.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has happened” - 13Hadi murder trial under Speedy Trial Tribunal: Asif Nazrul
The Business Standard · 22 December 2025 · News report · tbsnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What has not yet happened” - 14Pallabi Jubo League ex-president Bappi ordered Hadi murder; chargesheet filed against 17: DB
The Business Standard · 6 January 2026 · News report · tbsnews.net
News archive record and context
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 15Govt announces Tk50 lakh bounty for information leading to arrest of Hadi attack suspect
The Business Standard · 13 December 2025 · News report · tbsnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 16Fresh efforts underway to bring back three fugitives accused in Hadi murder case
Dhaka Tribune · 6 June 2026 · News report · dhakatribune.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 17Hadi murder: India yet to clear accused’s extradition
Dhaka Tribune · 6 July 2026 · News report · dhakatribune.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 18Osman Hadi murder: Faisal Karim denies involvement
Prothom Alo English · 22 March 2026 · News report · en.prothomalo.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 19NIA gets 9 days further custody of 2 Bangladeshi, accused in Hadi’s killing
The Sentinel (Assam) · 5 April 2026 · News report · sentinelassam.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 20Osman Hadi shooting: Prime suspect’s wife, brother-in-law, and friend sent on 5-day remand
The Business Standard · 15 December 2025 · News report · tbsnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 21Hadi murder: HC refuses bail to key accused Faisal’s wife
The Business Standard · 26 July 2026 · News report · tbsnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 22Hadi murder: Aminul confesses to helping shooter Faisal flee to India
The Business Standard · 29 December 2025 · News report · tbsnews.net
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 23Hadi murder: Faisal’s close associate Rubel confesses
The Business Standard · 1 February 2026 · News report · tbsnews.net
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↩ First cited in “Where the people in the case stand” - 24India agrees to return suspected killers of Hadi: govt
New Age · 9 April 2026 · News report · newagebd.net
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↩ First cited in “What remains unanswered” - 25Osman Hadi murder: Weapon passed three hands, ends up in Narsingdi
Prothom Alo English · 18 December 2025 · News report · en.prothomalo.com
Source catalogue record and provenance
↩ First cited in “What remains unanswered” - 26Two Bangladeshi criminals arrested by WB Special Task Force
News On AIR (All India Radio) · 8 March 2026 · News report · newsonair.gov.in
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↩ First cited in “What is disputed”
Not published, conflicts and gaps
- Elapsed time
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- Counts not given
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- Questions and disputes
- The questions are drawn from the canonical records of the Justice pages, and leave this page once a record answers them. Disputed claims are shown with every side; a disputed claim is never presented as established.
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The whole case record, from the attack to the latest hearing.
Investigation
How the police and the CID have investigated the case.
Timeline
His life and the case, in date order, with every source.