A Dhaka court today placed former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), Lt Gen (retd) Sheikh Mamun Khaled, on a five-day remand in a case filed over the killing of furniture trader Mohammad Delowar Hossain during the July Uprising.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Siddique Azad passed the order after detectives produced Khaled before the court with a seven-day remand prayer, a sub-inspector working at the court said.

Amid tight security, Khaled, 63, was escorted to a courtroom of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) Court around 3:05pm. During the hearing, he also defended himself along with his lawyers.

According to the police forwarding report, Khaled was arrested in the case as a suspect.

Earlier today, Khaled was detained from Mirpur DOHS in Dhaka.

On July 6 last year, the victim’s wife, Liza, 34, filed a case with Mirpur Model Police Station, accusing 74 people, mostly Awami League leaders and activists.

According to the case documents, Delowar was shot in the Mirpur-10 area on July 19, 2024, during the quota reform protests. He died while undergoing treatment at City Care General Hospital in Dhaka’s Shyamoli area on July 21 the same year.

Defence sources claimed the former intelligence chief faces multiple allegations, including amassing illegal wealth, involving DGFI in political activities, and orchestrating controversial “militant drama” narratives.

He is also alleged to have misappropriated hundreds of crores of taka from the Jolshiri Housing Project and to have links to “Aynaghor.”