Ex-DGFI chief Mamun Khaled placed on 5-day remand in July killing case

A Dhaka court on Thursday placed former Director General of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), retired Lt Gen Sheikh Mamun Khaled, on a five-day remand in a case filed over a killing linked to the anti-discrimination student movement in 2024.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Siddique Azad passed the order following a petition filed by the investigation officer of the case, Sub-Inspector Kafil Uddin of the Detective Branch (DB) of police, seeking a seven-day remand.

Earlier in the day, at around 3:10pm, the accused was produced before the court amid tight security after his arrest late on Wednesday night (26 March) from his residence in DOHS, Mirpur, in the capital.

During the hearing, State Prosecutor Omar Faruq Faruqui argued in favour of the remand, while defence lawyers Morshed Hossain Shahin and Nazrul Islam opposed the plea. The court later granted a five-day remand.

According to the remand application, the victim, Delwar Hossain, 40, took part in the anti-discrimination student movement in the Mirpur-10 area on the afternoon of 19 July 2024. It is alleged that several hundred activists of an Awami League affiliate carried out an attack using local weapons and firearms.

The case statement further alleges that, following instructions from Sheikh Mamun Khaled, indiscriminate firing was carried out from multiple directions, leaving Delwar Hossain critically injured. He was first taken to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and later shifted to a private hospital in Shyamoli, where he succumbed to his injuries on the morning of 21 July.