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The members of the Detectives Branch of Police arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Rajshahi-5 constituency (Puthia-Durgapur) Rahenul Haque in front of Rajshahi central jail on Monday night, minutes after he was released from the jail on bail.

‘Plain clothes detectives picked up Rahenul Haque, minutes after he walked out of the jail after 10:00pm on Monday night,’ said Rahenul’s lawyer Ziaur Rahman who went in front of Rajshahi central jail on Monday night to meet his client.


However, Ruhul Amin, officer-in-charge of Rajshahi district DB Police, told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that they had arrested Rahenul from Saheb Bazar area in Rajshahi city at around 12:00am as there was a requisition from Charghat police station to arrest Rahenul.

He said that Rahenul was sent to jail through a court on Tuesday after being arrested in the case filed with the Charghat Model Police Station under the Special Powers Act and other related sections of the Penal Code.

Earlier, police arrested Rahenul, also a member of Rajshahi district AL unit, from Charghat Bazar area on September 21, in a case filed on August 20.

Meanwhile, Nargis Khatun, wife of Rahenul Haque, alleged that some leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student body of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, picked up her son Rezaun Ul Haque in front of Rajshahi central jail at around 9:00pm on Monday night when he was waiting there for his father to come out of the jail.

She said, when she contacted Rezaun over the mobile phone, his son informed her that he was taken to the river bank near the prison and the Chhatra Dal men demanded a ransom of Tk 50,000 from him.

Nargis Khatun said that her son was later released in mediation of some Chhatra Dal and Juba Dal men as one of his relatives was involved with Juba Dal.

Contacted, Akbar Ali Jacky, president of Rajshahi city unit JCD, told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that he heard about the incident last night but did not know the whole incident.