She is wanted in a murder case and the police are looking for her.

However, former Jatiya Sangsad president Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury demanded from a hideout for a new general e-passport.

She also gave her biometric data to passport workers at the hideout.

The question arises: if the passport employees traced Shirin Sharmin, why did the police not do so?

Amid this, Md Mazid Ali, Rangpur Metropolitan Police Commissioner, today told The Daily Star: “She is a fugitive accused in a murder case, and we are running campaigns to arrest her.”

Asked if the police would question the passport officers who took Sharmin’s fingerprints, Mazid, without giving a direct answer, replied: “The matter is under investigation.”

The former Awami League MLA from Rangpur-6 is an accused in a murder case lodged following the death of a goldsmith, Muslim Uddin, in Rangpur, according to police.

On August 22, the government revoked the diplomatic (red) passports of members of the now-defunct parliament, including the former prime minister, as well as her advisors and other officials who held such passports, after the fall of the regime. the LA in a mass uprising on August 5.

On October 3, the former President and her husband, Syed Ishtiaque Hossain, applied for a regular e-passport at the Agargaon passport office in Dhaka.

They were supposed to submit their biometric data on October 10, which they allegedly gave to passport officials from their hideout.

Sources at the passport office said that in the application, the former President had mentioned that she was ill and “had made special arrangements”.

However, where Shirin Sharmin gave her biometrics remains a mystery as police sources claimed she was not found at her Dhanmondi residence, which she mentioned as her current address in the passport application .

The rules for applying for an e-passport state that while everything can be done at home, the applicant must visit the relevant passport office for biometrics on the scheduled date. Only sick and disabled people will be able to benefit from this facility from home or hospital thanks to the mobile team of the special service of the passport office.

Asked if an investigation was underway against the passport officials responsible for taking Sharmin’s fingerprints at her hideout, Firoz Sarker, additional secretary (security and immigration wing) of the ministry’s Security Services Division of Interior, declined to comment saying: “I am not authorized to comment in this regard.

The ministry’s chief information officer can answer that question, he said.

Faisal Hasan, principal information officer of the ministry, said he did not have any information in this regard and suggested communicating with the Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP).

The Daily Star contacted Major General Md Nurul Anwar, director general of DIP, but he did not receive the call.

However, in a press release today, the DIP said, “Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury currently has no active passport. The diplomatic passport issued to him has already been revoked like all other diplomatic passports.

“About a month and a half ago, she presented her diplomatic passport and applied for a general passport. Applying for a new passport is a long process. A passport is issued to a person only after verification and analysis in different phases”, we can read in the press release. DIP notification.

The notification further added, “The application for obtaining a new general passport in exchange for the diplomatic passport of Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury is still in the primary stage. She is yet to obtain a new passport.”

This newspaper also tried to contact Shirin Sharmin but no one answered the calls.