A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday placed former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, retired lieutenant general Sheikh Mamun Khaled, on a five-day remand in a case filed with Mirpur police station in Dhaka.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Siddiq Azad passed the order after Detective Branch of police Sub-Inspector Kafil Uddin produced him before the court seeking a seven-day remand for interrogation.
According to the case remand petition, on July 19, 2024, the victim, Delowar Hossain, 40, was present with students and people in support of the anti-discrimination student movement at the Mirpur-10 Fruit Market area in Dhaka.
At that time, around 500 to 700 activists of Awami League affiliate organisations, including the named accused and unidentified others, allegedly opened indiscriminate fire from different directions under the instruction of detained suspect Mamun Khaled, using both local weapons and foreign firearms, in an attempt to suppress the peaceful protest, said the plea.
Delowar was shot and collapsed at the scene. He was first taken to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in critical condition and later shifted to City Care General Hospital in Shyamoli on July 20 for advanced treatment. He died while undergoing treatment on July 21.
The victim’s wife, Mosammat Liza, filed the murder case with Mirpur Model Police Station on July 6, 2025.
A team of DB police detained Sheikh Mamun Khaled early on Thursday from his residence in Mirpur DOHS around 1:15am. He was later taken to the DB office on Minto Road in the capital.
The arrest of the former three-star army officer comes about 48 hours after the arrest of another former three-star general, Masud Uddin Chowdhury, in Dhaka.
Discussions also revolve around former Army officer Mamun’s role during the 1/11 period, including allegations that the DGFI was drawn into political activities.
Following the fall of the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, amid a student-led mass uprising, the Anti-Corruption Commission launched an inquiry against Mamun over corruption allegations of amassing illegal wealth.
Following the ACC petition, a Dhaka court in May 2025, during the interim government period, imposed an international travel ban on Mamun and his wife from leaving the country.
There are also allegations against him that he was involved in corruption, including misappropriation of funds from the Jolshiri Housing Project, and is linked to the so-called ‘Ayna Ghor’.
Mamun Khaled served as director of the DGFI from December 2007 to December 2010 and later as its director general from June 23, 2011, to March 7, 2013, during the AL regime.
