Bound in handcuffs and under heavy police security, Mohammad Shahadat Nabi, a member of the Awami League’s central relief and rehabilitation sub-committee, attended his father’s final rites in Chandanaish, Chattogram, following a brief grant of executive parole.

The funeral service took place at 2:00 pm on Monday, 17 August, at a local mosque within Chandanaish Municipality. Escorted by a police contingent throughout the ceremony, the politician was permitted to participate in the funeral prayers before being re-custodied immediately after the burial and returned to prison.

Shahadat Nabi, who also holds an executive post in the Chandanaish Upazila unit of the Awami League, has been detained at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur since his arrest on 12 August last year from Dhaka’s Paltan area. Police authorities confirmed that he faces three separate criminal cases registered with Dhanmondi Police Station in the capital.

Family sources confirmed that Shahadat Nabi’s father, Nurunnabi Saudagar, aged 88, passed away at approximately 5:20 am on Sunday at a hospital in Chandanaish after suffering from prolonged age-related ailments.

Following his father’s demise, Shahadat Nabi submitted an urgent petition for temporary parole to the Senior Jail Superintendent at Kashimpur Central Jail. Reviewing the humanitarian grounds of the application, the District Magistrate of Gazipur granted an 11-and-a-half-hour parole window, running from 4:00 am to 3:30 pm on Monday, to enable him to perform his religious and filial obligations.

According to his uncle, Nurul Alam, a police escort brought Shahadat Nabi from Gazipur to his ancestral home in Chandanaish at around 1:30 pm on Monday. Still handcuffed, he stood among mourners during the Janaza prayers, after which Nurunnabi Saudagar was laid to rest at the family graveyard.

Police Inspector (Investigation) Liton Miah of Chandanaish Police Station confirmed that the temporary release was carried out strictly in accordance with the magistrate’s executive mandate. He reiterated that Shahadat Nabi remains implicated in three active cases in Dhanmondi, adding that law enforcement personnel re-custodied the detainee at 3:20 pm to commence his return journey to Kashimpur Central Jail.

Parole provisions under Bangladeshi penal administration allow incarcerated individuals temporary release for grave personal emergencies, such as the death of an immediate family member. However, security protocols routinely require high-profile political detainees or those facing active criminal charges to remain restrained and under strict armed escort throughout the duration of their release.