Ex-IGP Mamun put on 43-day remand in 8 cases

A Dhaka court has placed former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun on a 43-day remand in eight separate murder cases filed during the July-August student movement.

Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court passed the order when the police produced him before the court on 8 October.

Today, Mamun was placed on a 38-day remand in seven cases filed over the deaths of seven people in the city's Jatrabari area, while he was remanded for five days in the case filed over the death of Tahir Zaman Priyo, 27, in New Market area.

On September 4, police arrested Mamun from the Uttara area.

Mamun served from September 2022 to August 5 this year, the day former prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled amid a mass upsurge.