Salman Shah committed suicide: PBI

Salman Shah, one of the popular actors in country’s film industry, was not murdered by anyone but he committed suicide over a family feud, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) said on Monday.

“The death of Dhallywood’s popular film star Salman Shah is not a murder, rather he committed suicide following a family dispute,” PBI chief DIG Banaj Kumar Majumder told a press conference held at its headquarter in the capital's Dhanmondi this morning.

During the press briefing, PBI cited excessive intimacy with the then popular film actress Shabnur, dispute with his wife Samira Haque and excessive emotion as reasons behind the death of Salman Shah.

The popular film actor in the 90s mysteriously died on September 6, 1996 at 25 and his father Kamaruddin Chowdhury had filed an unnatural death case which he later turned into a murder case.

Detective Branch, Criminal Investigation Department of police and a judicial probe body investigated the case separately and submitted their reports saying that Salman’s death was a case of unnatural death, which Salman Shah’s family rejected.

A Dhaka court on December 6, 2016 asked the Police Bureau of Investigation to carry out further investigations into the case filed over the death of Salman Shah for the fresh inquiry.

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