Meantime, the same court will frame charges today against Mamun in connection with the graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Accepting the charge sheet in the arms case, Judge Momin Ullah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court set the date and directed the jail authorities to produce Mamun before the court on the scheduled date.

Earlier on April 26, Cantonment police submitted the charge sheet against Mamun to the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka showing 12 people as prosecution witnesses.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Cantonment Police Station Shahrum Khan, also the investigation officer (IO) of an arms case filed against Mamun, pressed charges against him for possessing illegal firearms and ammunition.

Mamun was arrested from his Banani DOHS residence on March 26. Police seized a .22 bore Spanish pistol and eight bullets at his house.

Later, an arms case was filed against him and he was placed on a four-day remand for interrogation.

MAMUN'S GRAFT CASE
The same court will frame charges against Mamun, a close friend of BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, in connection with the graft case filed by the ACC.

On April 5, the commission's Assistant Director SMM Akhter Hamid Bhuiyan lodged the case against Mamun for not submitting his wealth statements to the commission within the stipulated time.

Following the case, the sessions judge's court issued arrest warrant against him and directed the authorities concerned to send a copy of the arrest warrant to the police stations concerned.

The ACC on February 18 directed Mamun to submit his wealth statements within 72 hours, but neither he nor any representatives on his behalf submitted the statements. The anti-graft body at a meeting on March 29 gave approval for filing of the case, sources said.