>Red Director: Adding short description: "Bangladeshi politician" (Shortdesc helper)

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Adding short description: "Bangladeshi politician" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
|name = Shahjahan Hawlader Sujan
|native_name = শাহজাহান হাওলাদার সুজন
|native_name_lang = bn
|constituency_MP = [[Brahmanbaria-6]]
|term_start = 1994
|term_end = 30 March 1996<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/about-parliament/tenure-of-parliament|title=Tenure of All Parliaments|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref>
|predecessor = ATM Wali Ashraf
|successor = [[AB Tajul Islam]]
|party = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
|death_date = {{death date and given age|2001|07|03|35|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
|nationality = Bangladeshi
}}

'''Shahjahan Hawlader Sujan''' (died on 3 July 2001) was a [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] politician and a [[Jatiya Sangsad]] member from [[Brahmanbaria-6]] constituency winning by-election in 1994 and general election in February 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bangladeshtoday.net/ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়া-৬-আসনে-শক/|script-title=bn:ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়া-৬ আসনে শক্ত অবস্থানে ক্যাপ্টেন তাজুল ইসলাম!|website=Bangladesh Today|language=bn|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-6th-parliament-members-bangla|title=List of 6th Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref> He served as the vice president of Haji Mohammad Mohsin Hall Students Union of the [[University of Dhaka]].<ref name=charge/>

==Assassination==
Sujan died in a homicide - his body was found dead near the [[Doel Square]] at the [[University of Dhaka]] campus on 3 July 2001, five days after his abduction near Jonaki Cinema Hall in [[Dhaka]].<ref name=charge>{{Cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2003/07/10/d30710011717.htm|title=Charges pressed against 12 in ex-MP Sujan murder case|work=The Daily Star|date=2003-07-10|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref><ref name=hc/> In 2003, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pressed charges against local BNP party member Kajol Ahmed Jalali and 11 others in the murder case.<ref name=charge/> In March 2004, Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced Jalali to death and four others to life imprisonment.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/03/18/d40318012323.htm|title=1 handed death, 5 life for killing ex-MP Sujan|work=The Daily Star|date=2004-03-18|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2007/03/05/all-accused-in-sujan-killing-acquitted|title=All accused in Sujan killing acquitted|work=bdnews24.com|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref> In March 2007, [[High Court]] overturned the lower court verdict as the state counsel failed to prove the murder charges.<ref name=hc>{{Cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/03/06/d70306060893.htm|title=MP Sujan Murder : HC sets aside lower court sentence|work=The Daily Star|date=2007-03-06|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref>

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[[Category:1960s births]]
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[[Category:Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians]]
[[Category:Assassinated Bangladeshi politicians]]
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>Red Director: Adding short description: "Bangladeshi politician" (Shortdesc helper)