Dhaka, April 23 -- A Dhaka court has placed former Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) director Afzal Naser on a fresh four-day remand in connection with the murder of Mahmudul Hasan during the July Uprising.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sefatullah passed the order on Thursday, confirmed state counsel Muhammad Shamsuddoza Suman.

With this latest order, the retired lieutenant colonel has been remanded for a total of 27 days across eight separate phases in three different cases.

Afzal, who was a director at the DGFI from March 2006 to March 2008, was produced in court upon the completion of a previous remand in the Delwar Hossain murder case.

While Magistrate Monirul Islam initially ordered him to be sent to...