Deadline for the submission of re-investigation report on the alleged murder of popular actor Salman Shah has been extended, as the investigative body missed the first one.

Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey ordered the extension after Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) failed to submit the re-investigation report on Monday, which was the deadline for report submission.

The court set 15 September as the next deadline for submitting report on the apparent murder of Salman Shah, who had died on 6 September 1996.

After Salman’s death his father, Kamaruddin Ahmed Chowdhury, who is no longer alive, had lodged an unnatural death case. But on 24 July next year Kamaruddin complained to the Dhaka CMM Court that his son had been murdered.

Following this allegation, the court ordered that Crime Investigation Department (CID) investigate whether it was a murder or not.

Later the CID concluded that it was an unnatural death, and the court in its turn accepted the report.

Dissatisfied by the CID report, Salman’s father lodged a review petition at Dhaka CMM Court challenging the report.

On 19 May 2003, the court ordered judicial investigation into the case, which continued for 12 long years before coming to an end on 3 August 2014 when Metropolitan Magistrate Imdadul Haque submitted his report to the Dhaka CMM Court Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha.

But, this time too the report termed Salman’s death as unnatural.

In its latest turn, the case went to RAB on 10 February this year after Salman Shah’s mother Nila Chowdhury had filed another no-confidence petition with the same court.