[2] Nurul was born in Nawabganj, Dhaka to Amjad Hossen and Jomila Khatun in a Bengali Muslim family.

[4] In April 2003, Babul was arrested by Bangladesh Police for making a death threat against the then chairman of the Board of Investment and founder of the Amar Desh newspaper Mahmudur Rahman.

[5] Babul was arrested in 2004 in connection with the murder of a dredger worker, Alam Pramanik, who was working on a real estate project in Badda in 2003.

Around 100 law enforcement officers from various security agencies of Bangladesh raided Babul's house in Gulshan, Dhaka shortly after midnight in March 2004.

[12][13][14] Babul died on 13 July 2020 aged 74 from COVID-19 complications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh at the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.