Ex-BGB chief barred from leaving country
Details regarding his detention couldn't be confirmed immediately
Lt Gen (retd) Mainul Islam, former director general of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), was barred from leaving the country by the immigration police at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka today (24 December).
An official from the immigration police confirmed the matter to The Business Standard.
Mainul was supposed to board an Emirates flight at 7:30pm, according to sources.
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Golam Rosul, chief of the Special Branch of police, told TBS around 10pm, "He (Moinul) was not detained. We have requested him not to go abroad now as he will be able to assist the commission formed to investigate the BDR carnage. He can go abroad anytime he wishes later."
Mainul Islam was appointed as the director general of the then-Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) within 48 hours of the 25-26 February 2009 BDR mutiny and a massacre that killed 74 people, including 57 army officers.
After taking over as director general, Mainul introduced changes to the force's uniform and added an intelligence unit.
Bangladesh Rifles was officially renamed as the Border Guard Bangladesh on 23 January 2011.
Mainul was later promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.
In July 2015, he became the principal staff officer of the Armed Forces Division.
He retired from the army in February of the following year.
Mainul Islam is the brother of Atiqul Islam, former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation, who was arrested in the capital on 16 October
