‎A Dhaka court on Saturday sent Mahmudur Rahman Jony, former assistant professor of Public Health and Informatics at Jahangirnagar University, to jail in a case filed over murder during the July Uprising.

‎Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Abdullah Mohammad Saleh passed the order on Saturday after police produced the accused before the court, seeking a seven-day remand.

‎Jony was detained from Savar area in the capital at around 3am on Saturday.

‎According to the case documents, Joint Convener of Dhaka Metropolitan South Chhatra Dal Ariful Rahman Rasel joined the July movement on 5 August 2024 in the Savar area.

‎He was shot at noon on that day, allegedly by the accused, and doctors declared him dead after he was taken to a hospital.

Saydur Rahman, brother of the deceased, filed a murder case with the Savar Police Station, where assistant professor Jony is a suspected accused.

‎Jony, who also served as an assistant proctor of the university, was dismissed in February last year over allegations of sexually harassing a female student.