Ex-home secretary Jahangir Alam. File Photo

DHAKA, May 22, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today sent to jail Md Jahangir Alam, former secretary of the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs, in a case lodged over the killing of Sheikh Mehedi Hasan Zunayed in the city's Bongshal area during the July-August mass uprising in 2024.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Joshita Islam passed the order as police produced him before the court after the end of his two-day remand in the case.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Minhazur Rahman on May 14 had placed Jahangir on a two-day remand in the case, public prosecutor (PP) Kamruzzaman Swapan told BSS.

Police, however, took him on remand on May 20.
 
Md Jahangir Alam was arrested from the capital's Gulshan area on October 1,
2024.
 
According to the case documents, Zunayed came under attack when taking part in a procession on August 5, 2024 at Dhaka Medical Burn Institute. He received bullet injuries in his head as police and Awami League (AL) cadres shot at him. He was rushed to the hospital, where the attending doctor declared him dead.
 
In this connection a case was filed with the Bongshal Police Station on September 5, 2024, implicating former home secretary Jahangir Alam and others.