SB chief Shah Alam sent into retirement

The government has sent police’s Special Branch (SB) chief Md Shah Alam into retirement on Thursday.

A gazette notification, signed by Abu Sayeed, deputy secretary of the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs, was issued on Thursday in this regard.

According to Section 43(1) of the Public Service Act-2018, Additional Inspector General Shah Alam has been sent into retirement upon completion of his 59-year of service career, it reads.

Earlier on August 13 this year, he was appointed as the head of the SB. He served the Bangladesh Railway as deputy inspector general.

He joined Bangladesh police as assistant police super on January 20, 1991.