Shahudul Haque

Shahudul Haque is a former inspector general of police during 2003–2004. Earlier, he was an army officer who later joined the Bangladesh Police.

Career Huda served in the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was one of 17 former army officers recruited into the Bangladesh Police by President Ziaur Rahman. According to Manik, a traffic policeman on duty did not salute, while his car passed in the Farmgate area in Dhaka earlier in June the same year. Later on 8 December, he was convicted of contempt of court after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal petition against the conviction. According to the legal experts, Haque stood dismissed from service since the relevant law says, "a public servant loses job for committing offences punishable with death, transportation or imprisonment for a term exceeding six months or with fines exceeding Tk 1,000 or both." Government removed Haque from the IGP position on 14 December 2004 and put Ashraful Huda as the acting IGP. Two days later, the government appointed Huda as the new IGP and the President of Bangladesh pardoned Haque by exempting him from the purview of Section 3 of Public Servants (Dismissal on Conviction) Ordinance, 1985.

2004 Dhaka grenade attack case In April 2004, Haque's term for the IGP office was extended for one more year. During his term, the incident of 2004 Dhaka grenade attack occurred in August 2004 that killed 19 and injured over 200 others. In October, Haque mentioned that "no international link has been found to the recent spate of bomb blasts", a claim that contradicted the government's one-member judicial commission, which hinted at the link of a "foreign enemy" to the attack. In July 2011, 30 people were added to the supplementary charge sheets of the grenade attack case which included Haque's name. Later in December, Haque had appealed to a Dhaka court to discharge him from the cases but it was rejected. In March 2012, Haque was charged for assisting the killers financially and administratively to execute the attack and faced up to life-term imprisonment. He was granted bail the next month. In October 2018, Haque and another former IGP, Ashraful Huda, were sentenced to two years in jail and fined Tk 50,000 for harbouring the offenders.