[3][4] In July 1977, two months before the September uprising, the Bogra Cantonment had seen a mutiny which had led to the mutinous unit being disbanded.

[citation needed] The mutiny took place in Bogra cantonment under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Zaman.

The government of Bangladesh was preoccupied with Japan Airlines Flight 472 which was hijacked and had landed in Dhaka.

[5] Enlisted men had killed their officers and there were reports of gunfire in Bogra town.

After the mutiny had failed, hundreds of soldiers were executed and buried in mass graves in Rajshahi.