Shibir Nasir

Shibir Nasir, born Nasir Uddin Chowdhury, is a cadre of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and gangster from Chittagong. He was facing 36 cases with charges including extortion, kidnapping, and murder. He operated out of a dorm of Chittagong College.

Career

Nasir was a cadre of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir who used him to keep control of Chittagong and nearby areas. He also worked for hire occasionally for other parties. on 15 June 1997, charges were framed against him over the incident.

Nasir was arrested on 9 April 1998 from a dorm of Chittagong College. His elder sister Lili was also involved. His associate, Md Ramzan alias Bhagina Ramzan, was arrested in 2004 with an AK-47.

According to a 2008 report of The Daily Star, Nasir was treated like a VIP prisoner and was allowed to meet his associates in hotel in Chittagong.

In 2017, Nasir was sentenced to five years imprisonment in a case filed over attacking police officers in Chittagong College. He was acquitted in the murder of Zamir Uddin, general secretary of the students union at the Chittagong Polytechnic Institute in 2015, and the murder of Gopal Krishna Muhuri, principal of Nazirhat College. Gopal Krishna Muhuri had banned Islami Chattra shibir in his college.

Nasir applied for bail in 2022 after crossfire deaths stopped but was denied. He had a total of 36 cases against him. He was acquitted in 31 cases against him and found guilty in three cases. He served the prison term of those three cases. He has three other cases against him in which he was able to secure bail.