Dismissed DGFI official Manjil Haider placed on 4-day remand in Rubel murder case
DB Police (Tejgaon division) Inspector Mohammad Tipu Sultan sought to show Manjil arrested in the Rubel murder case and requested a seven-day remand.
A Dhaka court has placed dismissed major Manjil Haider Chowdhury, a former official of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), on a four-day remand in a case filed over the killing of garment worker Md Rubel during the July Uprising in the capital's Adabor area.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Hasib Ullah Pias passed the remand order today (3 May), court sources said.
Earlier in the day, after completion of remand in a separate case, investigation officer Inspector Md Amzad Hossain Talukdar of the Ramna zonal team produced Manjil before the court and sought an order to keep him in jail. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ariful Islam granted the application.
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Later, DB Police (Tejgaon division) Inspector Mohammad Tipu Sultan sought to show Manjil arrested in the Rubel murder case and requested a seven-day remand.
A hearing on the arrest petition was first held at the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jamshed Alam, who allowed the application.
A separate hearing on the remand petition was then held before Metropolitan Magistrate Hasib Ullah Pias.
Defence counsel Kamal Hossain sought cancellation of the remand and prayed for bail. The prosecution opposed the plea. After hearing both sides, the court granted a four-day remand.
Manjil Haider was arrested on 9 April from the DOHS area in Mohakhali.
He was later remanded for 12 days in three phases in a New Market Police Station case over the killing of businessman Abdul Wadud.
On 22 April, he was placed on a five-day remand in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act with Ramna Model Police Station. The court subsequently granted further remands of four days on 26 April and three days on 30 April.
According to the case statement, during the July Uprising, Rubel joined hundreds of students and protesters in a demonstration on Ring Road under Adabor Police Station at around 11am on 5 August.
At that time, police and activists of the Awami League, Chhatra League, Jubo League, Swechchhasebak League, Sramik League, Tanti League, Krishak League and Matsyajibi League allegedly opened fire.
Rubel was injured in the shooting and died while undergoing treatment on 7 August.
His father, Rafiqul Islam, filed the case with Adabor Police Station on 22 August.
