Rise and power base
Public roles are source-confirmed; controversies or allegations must be read separately as source-backed evidence-layer material.
Bangladesh
A senior police and elite-force commander discussed through policing power, RAB leadership, asset-investigation reporting, and corruption-case posture.
Aliases: Benazir Ahmed, Benagir Ahmed, Former IGP Benazir
Included because public sources document his former IGP/RAB/DMP roles, ACC inquiry into graft allegations, asset-freeze and confiscation reporting, and later indictment reporting.
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Public roles are source-confirmed; controversies or allegations must be read separately as source-backed evidence-layer material.
Bangladesh
Reported themes: senior police command, RAB leadership, ACC wealth inquiry, asset-freeze/confiscation orders, and corruption-case charge framing.
The public-interest value is understanding how power in state institutions, policing, media, urban governance, or finance is discussed in records.
BSS and Daily Star reporting describe ACC inquiry and court-process developments concerning alleged illegal wealth, concealment of information, and money-laundering allegations. These records are treated as investigation and court-process reporting, not as final guilt unless a final court outcome is documented.
Next steps should model each claim, case, court order, response, or correction as a separate structured record.
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE · OFFICIALLY INVESTIGATED
Rights groups, human-rights reporting, and later ICT proceedings present differing accounts of the May 5-6, 2013 operation, casualties, and use of state force around the Hefazat rally.
CROSS CHECKED
GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN · 2013-05-05 2013-05-06
A record of the May 5-6, 2013 rally and operation around Motijheel's Shapla Chattar, competing casualty accounts, and later ICT proceedings.
Casualty counts vary substantially by source: 2026 tribunal reporting refers to a prosecution account of 58 deaths, a 2013 rights report attributed 61 deaths to Odhikar, and contemporary reporting also described a lower government count. None should be presented as a final judicial finding.
Explore incidentBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 22 Apr 2024
Report that the Anti-Corruption Commission formed a probe body to inquire into graft allegations against former IGP Benazir Ahmed.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 3 May 2026
Report that a Dhaka court framed charges against former IGP Benazir Ahmed in a graft case involving alleged illegal wealth, information concealment, and money laundering.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 21 Aug 2024
Report on ACC-source discussion of investigations into former and current police officials, naming several senior police figures in post-transition accountability context.
View sourcebdnews24.com · 15 Dec 2024
Report that ACC filed cases against former NBR official Matiur Rahman and others over alleged wealth beyond means and concealed asset information.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 19 Sep 2024
BSS report that businessman Selim Prodhan filed a court complaint naming Aziz Ahmed, Benazir Ahmed, Haris Ahmed, Tofail Ahmed alias Joseph, and another accused over alleged extortion and abduction; the magistrate directed CID to investigate.
View sourceThe Business Standard · 27 Jul 2026
The report says ICT-2 took cognisance of formal charges against Sheikh Hasina and 40 others over the 2013 Hefazat rally and reported prosecution claims concerning 58 deaths.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 27 Jul 2026
BSS reports that ICT-2 took cognisance of the formal charge over the May 5, 2013 crackdown and ordered accused in custody to be produced while warrants remained outstanding for absconding accused.
View sourcebdnews24.com · 27 Jul 2026
The report describes the complaint filed in 2024, the tribunal's acceptance of charges in 2026, 31 absconding warrants, and competing prosecution accounts of the death toll.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 12 Mar 2025
The Daily Star reports arrest and production warrants in the Shapla Chattar proceeding and attributes allegations about planning and responsibility to the prosecution.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 24 Aug 2025
BSS reports an ICT order permitting interrogation of several accused in the Shapla Chattar proceeding and describes the complaint brought on behalf of Hefazat leaders.
View sourceHuman Rights Watch · 1 Aug 2013
Human Rights Watch documented the 2013 protest violence through interviews and described the casualty and force accounts as contested and requiring independent investigation.
View sourceOdhikar, reported by Dhaka Tribune · 15 May 2013
The report attributes a total of 61 deaths to Odhikar's account of the May 2013 operation; this figure is presented as a rights-group claim rather than an established judicial finding.
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