December 19, 2025
DHAKA – After fighting for his life for six days, Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson for Inqilab Moncho, passed away on Thursday night.
In a Facebook post around 9:40pm, Inqilab Moncho first announced the death. “In the struggle against Indian hegemony, Allah has accepted the great revolutionary Osman Hadi as a martyr.”
An aspiring independent candidate for Dhaka-8, Hadi was shot on December 12 while he was on a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Dhaka’s Paltan area. He was first taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and later moved to Evercare Hospital as his condition deteriorated.
Last Saturday, he was airlifted to Singapore for advanced treatment.
Earlier in the day, Inqilab Moncho had said Hadi was now at a crossroads of life and death, adding that his family has given consent for his surgery to be conducted in Singapore.
Warning of a sit-in in Shahbagh until the attackers are arrested, the platform said, “If Osman Hadi responds to the call of his Creator and joins the ranks of martyrs, the oppressed and freedom-seeking people of Bangladesh are requested to gather at Shahbagh to ensure sovereignty,” adding that they will bring the country to standstill until the demand is met.
“If the killer flees to India, they must be arrested and brought back at any cost through discussions with the Indian government.”
On Wednesday night, Singapore’s Foreign Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan called Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus after visiting Hadi in hospital and described his health condition as “extremely critical”, the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing said.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court today granted three days’ remand each to Sibion Diu and Sanjay Chisim for allegedly helping Faisal Karim Masud, the prime accused in the attempted murder of Hadi, flee to India.
After they were produced before the court, Investigation Officer Faisal Ahmed sought seven days’ remand, but the court allowed three days.
In the remand prayer, the DB officer said they learned from confidential sources that the named and unnamed accused in the case fled to India via the Haluaghat border in Mymensingh.
Sibion Diu is the nephew of former Awami League lawmaker Jewel Areng, he added.
IO Faisal also said the arrestees need to be questioned to determine whose planning and instructions were behind facilitating the border crossing; identify others involved in planning the attack on Hadi, including financiers and facilitators; and recover the weapons used.
Meanwhile, police are looking for another suspect named Zakir, who was seen with the prime accused and his associate Alamgir at an election campaign of Hadi days before the attack.
So far, Rapid Action Battalion, police and Border Guard Bangladesh have detained and arrested 20 people linked to the incident, including the attack and the fleeing. Some of them were released after interrogation.
Those arrested include Faisal Karim Masud’s father Humayun Kabir and mother Hasi Begum; his wife Saheda Parvin Samia; Samia’s elder brother Wahid Ahmed Shipu; Masud’s girlfriend Maria Akter; Wahid Ahmed Shipu’s friend Md Foysal; Nuruzzaman Nomani alias Ujjal; Faisal’s close associate Md Kabir; Sibion Diu; and Sanjay Chisim.
Two others — Habibur Rahman and Milon — who were detained from Savar for contacts with fugitive Alamgir, were released on bond.
Uber driver Md Hiron and Md Razzak have been made witnesses and will be released after giving statements, investigators said.
Abdul Hannan, who was arrested over a wrongly registered motorcycle thought to be used in the attack, is not being charged in the case.
Meanwhile, BGB today arrested Benjamin Chidan, a relative of Philip Snal, who is also accused of facilitating the illegal border crossing of the accused, and his associate Sishal.
Earlier, Philip’s wife Delta Chidan, his father-in-law Yerson Rangdi, and another associate, Louis Lengminja, were also detained. They were subsequently released.