Molla Nazrul Islam

Molla Nazrul Islam
4th Police Commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police
In office
13 July 2022 – 1 June 2023
Preceded byKhandker Lutful Kabir
Succeeded byMd Mahbub Alam
Police career
Allegiance Bangladesh
Branch Bangladesh Police
Service years2001–2024
RankDIG

Molla Nazrul Islam is a Bangladeshi police officer and deputy inspector general of Armed Police Battalion headquarters.[1] He is the former commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, responsible for Gazipur.[2][3] He is a former special superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department.[4]

Career

Islam joined the Bangladesh police through the 20th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service in 2001.[5]

In 2013, two police officers were closed for detaining and extorting 10 million BDT from a businessman from Narail District.[6] They were closed after Narail-1 member of parliament Kabirul Haque Mukti wrote a complaint to the Ministry of Home Affairs that stated the policemen did so on the orders of Islam, then deputy police commissioner of Detective Branch North.[6] Islam claimed he stopped the associates of the lawmaker from assaulting a "minority" person in 2010, and this was retaliation.[6] Islam was transferred to the Protection and Protocol Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.[6]

Islam was the superintendent of police of Joypurhat District in 2015.[7] He was the deputy commissioner of Barisal Metropolitan Police.[8]

In 2017, Islam, then a special superintendent of organized crime of the Criminal Investigation Department, detained a terror financier.[9] He detained non-profit staff members linked to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on charges of money laundering.[10] He also launched an investigation into how Bangladeshi companies were paying social media companies.[4] He detained individuals, some with links with Bangladesh Open University, who forged tests for admission to the University of Dhaka.[11] He contributed to the investigation of the Bangladesh Bank robbery.[12] He detained Asif Akbar on piracy charges filed by Shafiq Tuhin in 2018.[13] He also investigated the murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi.[14]

Islam arrested a group of scammers operating under the Max Vision Group of Companies Ltd name.[15] He detained Shamim Kabir, chairperson of Fareast Islami Multi Cooperative Society Limited, on a three billion BDT default case; money he had collected from 20 thousand small investors.[16] He detained the managing director of S. A. Group, Shahabuddin Alam, on loan default charges of Bank Asia.[17] He detained Aziz, the Co-operative Commerce and Finance Credit Society chairperson, for embezzling three billion BDT in funds from members of the society.[18]

Islam was promoted to additional deputy inspector general of police in August 2019.[19]

In July 2022, Islam was appointed commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police after he was promoted to deputy inspector general of police.[20] In February 2023, a trader died in the custody of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, which Islam initially denied but later admitted.[21] He detained actress Mahiya Mahi under the Digital Security Act, 2018, after she criticized Gazipur Metropolitan Police and Commissioner Islam online.[22] Sub-inspector Rokon Mia filed two cases against Mahiya Mahi and her husband.[23] Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, minister of home affairs, defended the police action against Mahiya Mahi.[24] She secured bail on 19 March 2023.[25] He deployed 13 thousand police personnel for the Gazipur City Corporation election in 2023.[26]

On 1 June 2023, Md Mahbub Alam replaced Islam as commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police.[27] Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, he was appointed to the Bangladesh Police Academy and detained in February 2025.[28] In July 2026, he was sent into forced retirement along with other police officers who served as District Superintendent of Police during the 2018 Bangladesh general election.[29]

References

  1. ↑ "Accountability for police corruption, torture of Rohingyas demanded". New Age. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "13,000 law enforcers to be on Gazipur city polls duty: GMP commissioner". The Daily Star. 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  3. ↑ "New GMP commissioner exchanges views with journalists". The Asian Age. Bangladesh. 16 July 2022. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  4. 1 2 "BASIS seeks special card to pay for digital marketing". The Daily Star. 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  5. ↑ জিএমপি কমিশনার মোল্যা নজরুল ইসলামের যোগদান. Bangladesh Police. 2022-07-13. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Mollah, Shaheen; Khan, Tamanna (2013-06-02). "Cops or criminals?". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  7. ↑ "'Robber' killed in Joypurhat 'shootout'". The Daily Star. 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  8. ↑ "Shake-up in police". bdnews24.com. 22 March 2015. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  9. ↑ "Militancy financier held in Habiganj: CID". The Daily Star. 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  10. ↑ "8 NGO staffers arrested for money laundering". The Daily Star. 2018-10-30. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  11. ↑ "Cheating in Entrance Exams: CID arrests 8 DU students". The Daily Star. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  12. ↑ "BB, NY Fed discuss suing Manila bank for heist damages". The Daily Star. 2017-12-08. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  13. ↑ "Singer Asif lands in jail over digital piracy". The Daily Star. 2018-06-07. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  14. ↑ "Another held over Nusrat killing". The Daily Star. 2019-04-21. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  15. ↑ "Fraud gang busted, 13 held". The Daily Star. 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  16. ↑ "Fareast Islami co-op chairman arrested". The Daily Star. 2019-07-17. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  17. ↑ "SA Group MD held over loan scams". The Daily Star. 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  18. ↑ "Aziz co-op society chief amassed Tk 300cr: CID". The Daily Star. 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  19. ↑ "20 police officials promoted to addl DIGs". The Daily Star. 2019-08-18. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  20. ↑ "GMP gets new police commissioner | News". BSS. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  21. ↑ "Death In Custody: Cops now say trader was held earlier". The Daily Star. 2023-02-07. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  22. ↑ Akand, Md. Raihanul Islam (18 March 2023). "GMP: Mahi has no right to make such comment about police department". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  23. ↑ "2 cases filed against actress Mahi, husband in Gazipur". The Daily Messenger. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  24. ↑ "Home minister: Mahi arrested on specific charges". OurtimeBD. 2023-03-18. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  25. ↑ "Actress Mahi gets bail nearly 4hrs after being sent to jail". The Daily Observer. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  26. ↑ "13,000 law enforcers to be on polls duty: GMP Commissioner". businesspostbd.com. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  27. ↑ "Mahbub Alam appointed as new police commissioner of Gazipur". Risingbd. 1 June 2023. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  28. ↑ ডিআইজিসহ পুলিশের ৪ ঊধ্বর্তন কর্মকর্তা আটক | | বাংলাদেশ প্রতিদিন. Bangladesh Pratidin (in Bengali). 2025-02-08. Retrieved 2025-02-08.
  29. ↑ "Government orders 33 senior police officers into retirement". Bdnews24.com. 5 July 2026. Retrieved 2026-07-05.
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