Ex-home secretary Jahangir Alam. File Photo

DHAKA, August 1, 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 Russel Bakaul in the city's Jatrabari area during the July-August mass uprising in 2024.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate GM Farhan Ishtiak passed the order as police produced the accused before the court after end of his five-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind bars till the end of probe.

The court on July 16 had placed Jahangir on a five-day remand in the case. Police on July 28 took him on remand.

Md Jahangir Alam was arrested from the capital's Gulshan area on October 1, 2024.

According to the case documents, Russel, 22, joined anti-discrimination student' movement rally in front of the Jatrabari Police Station on August 5, 2025. He was shot by police and subsequently died of his injuries.

Russel's elder brother Hasnat Bakaul filed the case on August 28, 2024.