Md. Iqbal Bahar
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Md. Iqbal Bahar is a retired police officer and former commissioner of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police.[1][2] He is the former Superintendent of Police of Dhaka District.[3]
Career
In 2005, Bahar was the superintendent of police of Bandarban District.[4]
In March 2009, Bahar was appointed Superintendent of Police of Dhaka District.[5] He was serving as the Superintendent of Police of Jessore District.[5]
On 10 April 2016, Bahar was appointed commissioner of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police, replacing Md. Abdul Jalil Mandal.[6] He oversaw the arrest of Aslam Chowdhury, joint secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in May 2016.[7] He supervised the high-profile murder case of the wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter.[8][9] He served till 12 July 2018 before being replaced by Md. Mahabubur Rahman.[6] He was then promoted to Additional Inspector General of Police.[10]
Bahar retired in 2019 while serving as the Additional Inspector General of Police at the Rajarbagh Telecommunications and Information Management.[11]
After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, Bahar was arrested from Bailey Road, Dhaka in June 2025 by the Detective Branch.[12][11] He was sent to jail in a murder case filed over the death of a protester, Shahinur Begum, in July 2024.[13]