Picchi Hannan

Picchi Hannan, also spelled as Pichchi Hannan, was a Bangladeshi gangster who was killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion.

Early life Hannan was born in Faridganj Upazila, Chandpur District. He moved to Dhaka to support his father's business in Karwan Bazar.

In 1998, Hannan was detained by the Bangladesh Police with the assistance of Mohammad Abu Hanif, president of the Ward 39 unit of the Bangladesh Jatiya Sramik League, the labour front of the Awami League, and joint general secretary of the Karwan Bazar Baboshaye Kalyan Samity Super Market. Hannan was released after eight months. He was named in the charge sheet submitted after a reinvestigation initiated by the Bangladesh nationalist Party-led government. He was accused in the murder case of Shahadat Hossain Sikder, Dhaka Ward commissioner.

In December 2004, one of Hannan's followers was shot dead in Dhaka. In October 2007, Rapid Action Battalion detained an associate of Picchi Hannan, Nazimuddin Babu, who is the president of the Dhanmondi unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra League. In July 2008, Rapid Action Battalion killed an associate of Hannan, Shaheb Ali, in a gunfight.

Death On 26 June 2004, Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Police launched a raid on a house in Uttara to detain Hannan. A court granted permission for him to be interrogated under a ten-day remand at the Interrogation Cell. On 6 August, he was taken for a search from custody by Rapid Action Battalion and then was killed in an alleged gunfight. His daughter alleged he was killed for refusing to obey a member of parliament of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party. During his autopsy a single bullet was found in his head.

In 2024, a movie about the life of Hannan was being developed in Dhallywood, starring Joy Chowdhury as Hannan.