Pinu Khan | |
Native Name: | পিনু খান |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Constituency Mp: | Reserved Women's Seat-23 |
Term Start: | 5 January 2014 |
Term End: | 7 January 2019 |
Predecessor: | Amena Ahmed |
Constituency Mp1: | Reserved Women's Seat-49 |
Term Start1: | 25 January 2009 |
Term End1: | 25 January 2014 |
Successor1: | Sabiha Nahar Begum |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1954 |
Birth Place: | Dhaka, East Bengal, Pakistan |
Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Pinu Khan (2 February 1954 – 17 March 2024) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of parliament from the reserved women's seats.
Pinu Khan was born on 2 February 1954.[1] She was selected to parliament on 5 January 2014 from reserved women's seat-23 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate.[2] She served as the general secretary of the Mohila Awami League.[3] Khan died on 17 March 2024, at the age of 70.[4]
Khan's son, Bakhtiar Alam Rony, fired his licensed gun in a traffic jam in an incident in April 2015. His shooting killed Abdul Hakim, a rickshaw puller, and Yakub Ali, an auto-rickshaw driver. He was interrogated by the Detective Branch over the murders while Pinu denied any involvement of her son.[5] He was charged with murder and the case became known as Eskaton Double Murder.[6] [7] [8] [9] On 30 January 2019, a Dhaka court sentenced him to life imprisonment.[10]