Shahjahan Hawlader Sujan (died on 3 July 2001) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member from

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constituency winning by-election in 1994 and general election in February 1996. He served as the vice president of Haji Mohammad Mohsin Hall Students Union of the University of Dhaka.

Assassination

Sujan died in a homicide - his body was found dead near the

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at the University of Dhaka campus on 3 July 2001, five days after his abduction near Jonaki Cinema Hall in Dhaka. In 2003, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pressed charges against local BNP party member Kajol Ahmed Jalali and 11 others in the murder case. In March 2004, Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced Jalali to death and four others to life imprisonment. In March 2007, High Court overturned the lower court verdict as the state counsel failed to prove the murder charges.

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