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 over the killing of a man during the July mass uprising.
Metropolitan magistrate Md Siddiq Azad passed the order after Detective Branch of police sub-inspector Kafil Uddin produced him in court seeking a seven-day remand for interrogation.
According to the remand petition, on July 19, 2024, victim Delwar Hossain, 40, was present along with students and people in support of the anti-discrimination student movement in Mirpur-10 Fruit Market area in Dhaka city.
At the time, around 500 to 700 activists of Awami League affiliate organisations, including the named accused and unidentified others, allegedly opened indiscriminate fire as instructed by detained suspect Mamun Khaled in an attempt to suppress the peaceful protest, said the plea.
Delwar was shot and collapsed at the scene. He was first taken to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in critical condition, and later on July 20, for advanced treatment he was shifted to City Care General Hospital where he died on July 21.
The victim’s wife, Mosammat Liza, filed the murder case with the Mirpur Model Police on July 6, 2025.
A DB police team detained Sheikh Mamun Khaled early Thursday from his residence at Mirpur DOHS around 1:15am.
He was taken to the DB office on Minto Road in the capital about 3:30am, said the DMP DB chief, additional commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam.
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.
After his arrest, police officials said Masud was accused in at least 11 cases and he was initially shown arrested in a case filed with the Paltan police station in Dhaka under the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act.
Masud was produced before a metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday and the court allowed the police to take him in custody for five days for interrogation in the case.
Masud Uddin Chowdhury joined the HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party in 2018 and was later elected lawmaker for the Feni-3 constituency with the party ticket.
He is also accused in a case over embezzling Tk 119 crore in the name of sending workers to Malaysia.
Mamun’s arrest has also triggered talks among different sections of society regarding the former army officer’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 an ACC petition, a Dhaka court in May 2025 during the interim government period, imposed an international travel ban on Mamun and his wife.
Allegations are also against him over involvement in corruption, including misappropriation of funds from the government’s Jolshiri Housing Project, while he is linked to the so-called ‘Ayna Ghar’ incidents relating to enforced disappearance of many individuals during the Awami League regime.
Mamun Khaled served as DGFI director from December 2007 to December 2010 and later as its director general from June 23, 2011 to March 7, 2013 under the AL regime.
