Kala Jahangir

Jahangir started criminal activities as a teenager.^[10] He came from an educated family.^[11] In 2001, the government issued a list of 23 most wanted gangsters which included Jahangir.^[12]

Jahangir was a member of the Five-Star Group, which included Picchi Hannan, Dakat Shahid, and Zeesan Ahmed.^[13] The group was active in Dhaka in the 1990s and early 2000s.^[13] He was active in South Dhaka and Old Dhaka.^[14] In 2000, his gang gunned down Humayun Kabir Milon alias Murgi Milon in Old Dhaka Court.^[15] His gang gunned down Dhaka City Corporation Ward Commissioner Saidur Rahman Newton on 10 May 2002.^[15] The Daily Star reported that his underage followers detained in the Juvenile Development Centre, Tongi, were torturing non-gang affiliated detained teenagers.^[16] He was also accused in a case filed following the murder of Shahadat Hossain Sikder, another Ward Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.^[17]

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina accused the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party of using Jahangir to support its candidate, Mosaddek Ali Falu, the Dhaka-10 by-polls.^[18] Judge of the Speedy Trial Tribunal Court-2 of Dhaka Sheikh Jahangir Hossain alleged to the High Court Division that the government was pressuring him to release criminals ahead of the by-election.^[19] Jahangir had a case with his court.^[19] In June 2004, vice chairman of Bangladesh Jatiya Party Golam Parvez Didar was shot dead in Dhaka, and his family members blamed Jahangir, who had been threatening him for months.^[20] In July 2004, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina reported she received a death threat from Jahangir while she was in Istanbul for the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation conference.^[21][22] Prime Minister Khaleda Zia responded by calling Hasina delusional.^[21] The next month, Hasina was targeted in the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack.^[23][24]

Bangladesh Police arrested Sayeedur Rahman, who pretended to be Kala Jahangir, to extort money from local officials of World Bank.^[25] His aid, Nasiruddin Molla alias Gal Kata Nasir, was detained from Khulna by Rapid Action Battalion.^[26] In September, his aides Kajem Uddin Bhuiyan alias Bhutto and Mollah Shamim were killed in a gunfight with a joint unit of security forces called Cheetah and Rapid Action Battalion, respectively.^[27][28] Two of his aids were detained in Mirpur in November 2004.^[29] Rapid Action Battalion killed his aide, Panu Howladar alias Kanu alias Russell, in a gunfight.^[30] Police detained two of his accomplices when they went to collect extortion money from tax commissioners at the commissioner of income taxes in Khulna District.^[31]

Indian intelligence allegedly hired Jahangir's gang to attack Indian separatist safehouses inside Bangladesh.^[32]

Jahangir was acquitted of the attempted murder case on 16 December 1998 after the persecution failed to produce witnesses.^[33] Jahangir was sentenced to death along with nine others, including Killer Abbas, for the murder of Saidur Rahman Newton in May 2006.^[34] In 2008 the High Court Division maintained his death sentence for the murder of Advocate Habib Mandol, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.^[35] The High Court Division reduced his jail sentence to life imprisonment in July 2011.^[36]

In October 2007, Jahangir's second-in-command, Habibur Rahman Taj, was detained in Kolkata, India and handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department in Bangladesh.^[37]