TDS Desk:

A Dhaka court Tuesday granted a 43-day remand to the former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun in eight separate murder cases related to the shooting death of eight people in the anti-discrimination student movement and mass uprising.

The police produced the ex-IGP in the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday (October 8). After that, the investigating officer appealed to remand him for proper investigation of the cases.

Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun’s lawyers, on the other hand, requested to cancel the remand and appealed for bail.

After the hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahin Reza rejected his bail petition and granted a total of 48 days of remand for “different periods” in different cases.

The court granted Mamun’s seven-day remand in the case filed at Jatrabari police station in the case of the shooting death of Shakib Hasan during the anti-discrimination student movement.

The same court granted a seven-day remand in the murder case of Emon Hossain Gazi, a five-day remand in the murder case of Irfan Bhuiyan, and another five-day remand in the murder case of Muntasir Rahman.

Besides, the court granted a five-day remand in the murder case of van driver Sujon, a four-day remand in the murder case of Rafiqul Islam, and a five-day remand in the murder case of schoolboy Mahmudul Hasan Joy, 14.

All these murder cases were lodged at the Jatrabari police station.

Moreover, the court granted another five-day remand in the murder case filed under the New Market police station.

On September 3 night, Dhaka Metropolitan’s (DMP) Detective Branch (DB) police arrested former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.

The next day, the court granted an eight-day remand in the murder case of grocery shopkeeper Abu Sayed in Mohammadpur during the anti-discrimination student movement.

On September 24, the court granted this ex-IGP another four-day remand in the case of the shooting death of a teenager named Mohammad Ismamul Haque in the Chankharpul area in ​​the capital.