A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday placed two former inspectors general of police AKM Shahidul Haque and Chowdhury Abdullah-Al-Mamun on seven-day and eight-day remand respectively on charges of murder during the student-led mass uprising.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Akteruzzaman passed the orders as the police produced them before the court.聽聽
Mamun was placed on eight-day remand as the police produced him before the court seeking 10-day remand at about 7:10am on the day over the allegation of killing grocery shop owner Abu Sayeed in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur area.
Shahidul was placed on seven-day remand as he was聽 produced before the court seeking 10-day remand in a case filed with the New Market police station over the death of 45-year-old trader Abdul Wadud in the city鈥檚 New Market area during quota reform protests.
Both the former IGPs were arrested midnight past Tuesday in Dhaka鈥檚 different areas.
Former IGP Mamun was in the military custody and he wished to surrender, said DMP additional deputy commissioner for media and public relations Obaidur Rahman Shamim.
The DMP official also said that former IGP Shahidul was arrested at sector-16 in the Uttara area.
Both of them were IGPs during the regime of the ousted prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and they went into hiding after the fall of the Awami League-led government on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Akteruzzaman鈥檚 court, meanwhile, placed Dhaka district additional superintendent of police Abdullahhil Kafi on eight-day remand over his alleged involvement in an abduction and extortion case filed with the Hazaribagh police station.
Kafi was kept in the DMP detective branch custody since Monday midnight after the police detained him while trying to flee the country through Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
The magistrate passed the order after he was produced before the court on Wednesday morning.
He was also allegedly involved in killing and burning students in Ashulia on August 5.
A video clip that went viral on social media showed that police personnel were seen dumping a body on several other bodies on a rickshaw van on August 5, the day Sheikh Hasina resigned as the prime minister and fled to India amid a student-led mass uprising.
Besides, it was also seen in the video that another body was being loaded on them by police members in two attempts that was just like throwing sacks loaded with goods. The bodies were later covered with a poster.
At that time, some other police members were also seen walking around.