Lutfozzaman Babar (Bengali: লুৎফুজ্জামান বাবর, born 10 October 1958) is a Bangladeshi politician, who served as the State Minister of Home Affairs in the Khaleda Zia Cabinet from 2001 to 2006, as a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

[1] Babar was the youngest member in the cabinet of BNP-Jamaat led coalition government, and received media and public attraction alike due to his alternative clothing style, spike-cut hair, and various quips.

He was also among the pioneers in forming the Rapid Action Battalion, an elite force widely criticized for extra-judicial killings.

[15][3][16] His wife, Tahmina Zaman Sraboni, was a candidate for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from the Netrakona-4 constituency in the 2018 Bangladeshi general election.

[17][18] By the 1980s, under the rule of military ruler Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Babar made a fortune through the illicit smuggling of Casio digital watches.

[19] By 1996, he managed to wash-off his criminal past, and joined the central committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party through lobbying and became a lawmaker from Netrokona-4 constituency.

[21] After the 2005 Netrokona bombing, Babar initially blamed the attack on a Hindu man, Yadav Das, who was killed in the explosion.

[29] According to the April 2011 confessional statements by the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, upon his request, Tarique Rahman, then senior joint secretary general of BNP, assigned Babar, then state home minister, and Abdus Salam Pintu, then deputy industries minister, to provide assistance to the HUJI men to carry out the attack.

[29] Hannan met Babar among others in a meeting in Hawa Bhaban, the political office of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

[33] On November 22, 2024, the High Court concluded a hearing on the appeals and death references of the August 21 grenade attack cases and set to deliver its verdict on any day.

On 30 September 2010, in a statement to a Chittagong court, Sabbir Ali, the then-police commissioner of Chittagong metropolitan police, said that Babar directed him not to arrest National Security Intelligence officials engaged in helping offload arms and ammunition at the jetty on 2 April 2004. on 3 October, Babar was arrested for direct involvement in that arms haul.

[47] On January 27, 2005, former finance minister Shah A M S Kibria was severely injured in a grenade attack on his way out after attending an Eid post-celebration rally of the Awami League in Baidyer Bazar, Habiganj Sadar Upazila.

His nephew Shah Manjurul Huda, local Awami League leaders Abdur Rahim, Abul Hossain, and Siddiq Ali were also killed in the attack.

Upon investigation, on March 18, 2005, the CID submitted the first charge sheet to the court, accusing 10 people, including Abdul Kaiyum, the Central President of the Shaheed Zia Memorial and Research Council.

Later, on November 13, 2014, the fifth investigating officer of the case, Meherunnesa Parul, who was then the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Sylhet region, submitted a supplementary charge sheet to the court.