He has been missing along with his brother Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury Liton and other family members, ever since the resignation of his aunt Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024.
[2] His father was a politician and came from a zamindar family whilst his mother, Sheikh Feroza Begum, was a housewife.
Chowdhury had Iraqi Arab ancestry through both of his grandmothers, who were direct descendants of the 17th-century Muslim preacher Sheikh Abdul Awal of Baghdad.
Soon after the case emanated, Sheikh Hasina disavowed her nephew and campaigned for his opponent during the 2014 Bangladeshi general election.
[19] An audio clip of Nixon Chowdhury verbally abusing an executive went viral on social media, although he claimed it was fabricated.
[21][22][23] Chowdhury's lawyers filed a petition with the High Court of Bangladesh seeking anticipatory bail.
While his personal assistant claimed she "slipped and fell" from the rooftop of the couple's six story apartment building, an unnatural death case was filed with Gulshan police.