Shamim Osman

 ( Living People ) 

Bangladesh Police searched Osman's home in Narayanganj on 24 November 2003 when he was in Canada.

In November 2004, Osman's political rival, Mominullah Liton, also known as David, was killed in a crossfire by the Rapid Action Battalion.

On 1 May 2007, Osman was sentenced to jail for three years in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. On 14 August, a court ordered his property to be seized for tax evasion. In September 2007, the Anti-Corruption Commission sued Osman and his wife for illegal wealth and submitted the charge sheet in April 2008. On 12 September, he was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in a tax evasion case.

On 12 January 2009, Justices A. B. M. Khairul Haque and Md Abdul Hye of the Bangladesh High Court rejected Osman's petition seeking bail in three cases filed by the ⁣⁣Anti-Corruption Commission and the National Board of Revenue. After around eight years, Osman came back to Narayanganj in April 2009 when Bangladesh Awami League party returned to power. On 11 February, he received bail in two cases in which he was sentenced to three and eight years imprisonment. In 2011, he lost the Narayanganj City Mayoral election to Selina Hayat Ivy. He had received 78,000 votes in the city election. On 7 April 2011, High Court squashed the Anti-Corruption Commission case in which he was sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Osman was accused by Samrat Hossain Emily, a former national football player, of assaulting him in October 2013. On 8 March 2013, a 17-year-old student Tanvir Mohammad Toki, as found dead in Narayanganj two days after he had gone missing. The victim's father, Rafiur Rabbi, accused Osman's family of the killing of his son. On 25 March, High Court denied anticipatory bail to Osman and his son Ayon Osman. Osman filed a defamation lawsuit against Ivy.

For the 2014 Bangladesh general election, the party picked Osman to contest for Narayanganj-4 constituency, dropping the incumbent Kabori Sarwar. He was elected unopposed after the main Bangladesh Nationalist Party boycotted the election. By 2014, Awami League in Narayanganj had divided into two factions, one loyal to Osman and the other to Ivy. He had threatened ASP Mohammad Bashiruddin for not allowing Awami League activists to stuff ballots.

Osman was re-elected to parliament from Narayanganj in the 2018 Bangladeshi general election as a candidate of Awami League. He received 393,136 votes while his nearest rival, Monir Hossein of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 76,582.

He won the 2024 general election by attaining 195,827 votes, according to national statistics, which was canceled after 5th August, 2024. The International Crimes Tribunal issued an arrest warrant against him on 30th April, 2025, for organizing violent attacks on the movement protestors before the end of his tenure as the member of parliament. His residency was vandalized by protesters at February 6, 2025.