Former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), Lieutenant General (retd) Sheikh Mamun Khaled, has been sent to jail following multiple remand periods in a murder case.
Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam rejected his bail petition and ordered his detention on Monday, prosecution official SI Ruknuzzaman confirmed.
A team from the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Mamun Khaled from the Mirpur area of the capital around 12:30am on March 25.
He was subsequently placed on several remand periods in connection with the Delwar and Maqbul murder cases—five days initially, followed by six days on March 31, three days on April 6, and an additional four days, including one day granted on Sunday.
After completion of remand, investigation officer DB SI Kafil Uddin produced him before the court and sought an order to keep him in jail.
Advocates Morshed Hossain Shaheen and Nazrul Islam Pakhi represented the accused during the bail hearing.
According to the case statement, BNP had announced a program on December 10, 2022. Ahead of this, on December 7, DB officials conducted a raid at the party’s Naya Paltan office, during which vandalism and clashes occurred.
During the incident, BNP activist Maqbul Hossain was shot and later died.
Following the fall of the Awami League government amid a mass uprising, a case was filed on September 30, 2024, with Paltan Model Police Station against Sheikh Hasina and 256 others, naming Mamun Khaled among the accused.