 Sheikh Kamal and his friends were armed and also patrolling the city in a microbus looking for Siraj Sikder.When the microbus was in Dhanmondi the police mistook Sheikh Kamal and his friends to be insurgents and opened fire on them, thus injuring Sheikh Kamal.However, it is also claimed that Sheikh Kamal and his friends were in Dhanmondi to test drive a new car that his friend had bought recently.