->Red Director: Adding local short description: "Bangladeshi politician", overriding Wikidata description "Bangladeshi politician, Member of parliament" (Shortdesc helper)

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Adding local short description: "Bangladeshi politician", overriding Wikidata description "Bangladeshi politician, Member of parliament" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Pinu Khan
|native_name = পিনু খান
|native_name_lang = bn
|constituency_MP = Reserved Women's Seat-23
|term_start = 5 January 2014
|term_end = 7 January 2019
|predecessor = Amena Ahmed
|constituency_MP1 = Reserved Women's Seat-49
|term_start1 = 25 January 2009
|term_end1 = 25 January 2014
|successor1 = [[Sabiha Nahar Begum]]
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|02|02|df=y}}
|party = [[Bangladesh Awami League]]
|nationality = Bangladeshi
}}
'''Pinu Khan''' (born 2 February 1954)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-bangla?layout=edit&id=1300&csrt=14683758786351580893|title=Constituency 349|website=www.parliament.gov.bd|access-date=31 January 2020}}</ref> is a [[Bangladesh Awami League]] politician and a former member of parliament from the Reserved women's seats.

==Career==
Khan was selected to the parliament on 5 January 2014 from reserved women's seat-23 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate.<ref>{{cite web |title=PINU KHAN -পিনু খান History |url=https://amarmp.com/mp/1087/history |website=Amarmp |access-date=27 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> She served as the General Secretary of [[Mohila Awami League]].<ref name="Correspondent">{{cite news |title=Awami League MP Pinu Khan’s son arrested over double murders, hunt on for three others |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2015/06/11/awami-league-mp-pinu-khans-son-arrested-over-double-murders-hunt-on-for-three-others |access-date=27 January 2019 |work=bdnews24.com}}</ref>

==Controversy==
Khan's son, Bakhtiar Alam Rony, fired his licensed gun in a traffic jam in an incident in April 2015. His firing killed Abdul Hakim, a rickshaw puller, and Yakub Ali, an [[Auto rickshaw|auto-rickshaw]] driver. He was interrogated by [[Detective Branch (Bangladesh)|Detective Branch]] over the murders while Pinu denied any involvement of her son.<ref name="Correspondent" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Licence to kill |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/licence-kill-106006 |accessdate=27 January 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=2 July 2015 |language=en}}</ref> He was charged with murder and the case became known as Eskaton Double Murder.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eskaton double murder verdict deferred |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/dhaka-eskaton-double-murder-case-bakhtiar-alam-rony-verdict-deferred-pinu-khan-1573216 |accessdate=27 January 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=8 May 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Eskaton double murder verdict today |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/eskaton-double-murder-verdict-today-1573000 |accessdate=27 January 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=8 May 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Court defers murder verdict on MP Pinu Khan's son again |url=http://www.theindependentbd.com/post/169029 |accessdate=27 January 2019 |work=The Independent |location=Dhaka}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Court defers murder verdict on Awami League MP’s son, again |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/court/2018/10/04/court-defers-murder-verdict-on-awami-league-mp-s-son-again |accessdate=27 January 2019 |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=4 October 2018}}</ref> On 30 January 2019, a Dhaka courted sentenced him to life imprisonment.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/ex-awami-league-mp-pinu-khan-son-bakhtiar-rony-gets-life-jail-for-dhaka-eskaton-double-murders-1694938|title=Eskaton Double Murder: Eskaton Double Murder: Ex-MP's son gets life term in prison|date=31 January 2019|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=30 January 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Awami League politicians]]
[[Category:9th Jatiya Sangsad members]]
[[Category:10th Jatiya Sangsad members]]
[[Category:Women members of the Jatiya Sangsad]]
[[Category:21st-century Bangladeshi women politicians]]

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->Red Director: Adding local short description: "Bangladeshi politician", overriding Wikidata description "Bangladeshi politician, Member of parliament" (Shortdesc helper)