Phani Bhoushon Choudhury

Phani Bhushan Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi police officer, chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, and member of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission. He was a secretary of the government of Bangladesh.

Early life Chowdhury was born on 11 November 1954 in Chhatak Upazila, Sunamganj District. He graduated from the University of Chittagong in 1975 with a bachelor's in physics. In 1988, he was appointed an assistant superintendent of Bangladesh police. During the Bangladesh Nationalist Party rule from 2001 to 2006, he was denied promotion multiple times. He led the Criminal Investigation Department's investigation of the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack and found involvement of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh.

In 2010, Chowdhury joined the Ministry of Home Affairs as the police coordinator.

Chowdhury was made the secretary of the Ministry of Textiles and Jute in 2013.

Death Chowdhury died on 26 March 2016 at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, Bangladesh from cancer.