The Prince of the Dhaka Underworld, Kala Jahangir. He is the country's biggest criminal.
Chapter One: Ferdous Jahangir
Ferdous Jahangir is Kala Jahangir. He was born in Bogura in 1977. His village home is Banani Gaon under the Dhunat Police Station in Bogura. However, he grew up in Ibrahimpur, Dhaka. He lived with his mother in a house at 131/1 Adarsha Palli.
He had a dark complexion and a slim build. He was five feet four inches tall. His face was somewhat elongated.
In 1990, Kala Jahangir passed his SSC examination with star marks, including five letters (distinctions).
During his school days, only a few students achieved such results. He was supposed to leave a mark of achievement in the future and brighten the face of his schoolteacher mother.
But who knew the strange games of time? Who knew that this brilliance of his would be used in the dark world?
After finishing school, he enrolled in Tejgaon College. He began getting involved in Bangladesh Chhatra League politics.
But an incident occurred during that time. The then-terrorist 'Kochi Group' was active in the Dhaka Cantonment area.
A conflict started between Kochi's brother, Azad, and Jahangir over establishing dominance in the area.
A person known as a 'big brother' of the area was murdered in Ibrahimpur, and as a consequence of this event, Jahangir murdered Azad on the premises of the Dhaka Court.
Following this incident, the police arrested him. He was arrested only this one time in his life.
He served twenty-one days in custody and was released.
But many things changed during those twenty-one days of imprisonment. In twenty-one days, the exceptionally brilliant boy inside him became a dreaded terrorist.
In those twenty-one days, Ferdous Jahangir became Kala Jahangir.
Chapter Two: The Prince of the Underworld
This gangster began his journey into the dark world in 1992.
In a very short time, by participating in gruesome murders and through the sheer power of his intellect, he rose to the top of the underworld.
He formed his own gang, 'Black Panther', gathering all the ruthless gangsters.
Then, shifting gears in the underworld, he joined the 'Five Star' group. Here, his closeness grew with another notorious gangster, Picchi Hannan.
At this time, Kala Jahangir became virtually unstoppable. He started dominating everywhere in the criminal world.
After 1995, the majority of extortion in Dhaka came under his control.
He also possessed the country's largest stockpile of illegal weapons.
Kala Jahangir debuted as a professional killer with the murder of Kislu in 1996.
After that, one by one, ward commissioners, lawyers, political figures, and renowned businessmen began to be murdered at his hands.
At that time, Jahangir was the mastermind behind most of the sensational murder cases in Dhaka city.
Picchi Hannan and Kala Jahangir together directly participated in the murders of Commissioner Shahadat, Advocate Habib, and Murgi Milon in the court area.
Kala Jahangir's most sensational incident was the murder of Commissioner Saidur Rahman Newton.
This incident created a massive stir across the country and turned him into the unwritten prince of the Bangladeshi underworld.
The name Kala Jahangir began to spread like wildfire through the alleys of Dhaka.
Chapter Three: Newton's Apple
Newton, a former Vice-President of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal central committee and Ward 8 Commissioner of the Dhaka City Corporation, was himself a highly powerful leader.
A dispute had been ongoing between him and top underworld terrorists regarding his electoral area, Mirpur.
Its ultimate form was seen on May 10, 2002. That day was his brother's wedding ceremony.
On that occasion, he went to the 'Shital Hair Dresser' at Orchid Plaza in Dhanmondi 27 to dye his hair.
It was half-past eleven in the morning. Orchid Plaza is one of the busiest markets in the capital.
As soon as Newton came out of the salon and stepped in front of the stairs, gunfire started from all sides.
Becoming the target of four to five gunmen, Newton collapsed.
But the killers did not stop shooting. Not one or two, but almost twenty-two bullets pierced right through Newton's body.
After that, the terrorists fired several rounds at Newton's microbus and vanished.
That dreaded murder incident ended in just a minute and a half.
To murder a government-backed, equal-ranking ward commissioner in broad daylight like this—and on top of that, all the top-tier gangsters directly participated in this mission.
The presence of Kala Jahangir, Shahadat, and several others made the law enforcement agencies deeply concerned.
In the Newton murder case, Kala Jahangir and a few others were initially sentenced to death.
Later, this sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.
In the list of twenty-three top terrorists published by the government in 2001, Kala Jahangir's name was at the very top.
After that, RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) was formed, and amidst the turbulent state of the underworld, Jahangir gradually went into hiding.
Chapter Four: Do Not Listen to Rumors
There are many rumors spread regarding Kala Jahangir's death.
Among them, the most widely circulated rumor was his murder at the hands of his once-close friend, Picchi Hannan.
It is said that Hannan shot and killed him at the house of another terrorist, Nitel.
Another gangster named Shaheb Ali was also present at the time.
Kala Jahangir was close to several influential politicians.
Later, when Picchi Hannan, Nitel, and Shaheb Ali were killed in RAB crossfires around the same time, many sought a connection between this and Kala Jahangir's death.
Another rumor about his death was his suicide.
This was learned from his former close associate, Rampura's terrorist Shahazada.
Police arrested Shahazada in 2010.
Under interrogation, he revealed that Jahangir committed suicide on December 15, 2003, by holding a gun to his own head.
Later, he was buried in a graveyard in Korail, Gulshan.
He, in turn, learned this news from another terrorist, Lomba Shamim, who was present during Kala Jahangir's burial.
However, the police do not consider this news highly believable.
Terrorists often propagate news of their own death to mislead the police.
Moreover, Kala Jahangir once told a relative that in an adverse environment, the top heroes of the underworld have to choose one of three paths:
Spend life in jail, get murdered by rivals, or leave the country.
There is no fourth path open.
Those who are cowards commit suicide without understanding anything.
Therefore, doubts remain about him committing suicide.
According to another source, Jahangir was murdered by rivals in the Jashore border area.
After killing him, his face was burned with acid so that no one could recognize him.
However, all of these have remained merely rumors.
Without complete evidence and proof, the police cannot declare him dead.
So, he is still listed as alive on their wanted lists.
Many firmly believe that Kala Jahangir is indeed alive.
Hiding his identity, he is now residing in a foreign country.
This mysterious don is living happily with his wife, children, and business.
Chapter Five: Mother
Kala Jahangir's mother, Peara Begum, is a teacher at Senapalli School in Mirpur.
According to her statement, it was Monday, December 15, 2003.
Right when they were about to go to sleep, the doorbell rang.
The time was then between eleven and twelve at night, or maybe later.
Then, when they opened the door, four or five people rushed into the room, introduced themselves as police, and asked Peara Begum to go with them.
Peara Begum was already accustomed to these police matters because of Jahangir.
So she went out with them.
Coming out of the house, she got into a microbus with them.
A short while later, the vehicle stopped in front of a tall building.
A private car was parked there from before.
She was put into it and taken to the front of a slum, and they took Jahangir's mother to a room inside the slum.
There, a dead body was covered with a sheet.
Someone lifted the sheet and said, "Look, can you recognize him?"
Just by looking at the face, she recognized him.
To be more certain, she wanted to see the dead man's right hand.
Because there was a bluish birthmark above his right hand.
Seeing that, she realized it was the dead body of her younger son, Jahangir.
And she burst into wailing tears.
Peara Begum said, Jahangir's close friend Nitel used to look after everything for him.
He was called the second-in-command of the gang.
He came one night and said that, chased by RAB, they had taken shelter in a house in Mahmudpur.
Jahangir's wife Sonia was pregnant then.
In that situation, Jahangir had a quarrel with Sonia over the telephone.
Jahangir was very agitated.
At one point during the argument, he put a weapon to his head and fired.
Sonia was on the other end of the phone.
He was not taken to any hospital.
He lay dead in that house.
At night, the gang members buried Kala Jahangir in a graveyard in Korail, Gulshan.
The police received the news of his death from another terrorist, Lomba Shamim, who was present during his burial.
However, the police do not find this news credible.
Because many times, terrorists broadcast false news of their own deaths to mislead the authorities.
The puzzle of infamy that Kala Jahangir created around himself still leaves detectives perplexed.
Ordinary people have not been able to breathe a sigh of relief by being certain of his death.
Hearing his name still makes the blood in their chests run cold.
In the history of Bangladesh, Kala Jahangir is still the name of an unsolved mystery.
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