The members of the law enforcement agencies on Sunday arrested former environment, forest and climate change affairs minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury, former Awami League lawmaker for Rajshahi-3 constituency Asaduzzaman Asad, and home ministry鈥檚 Public Security Division senior secretary Aminul Islam at three places in the capital.
On the same day, a judicial magistrate court in Dhaka allowed the police to take former Prime Minister鈥檚 Office principal secretary Abul Kalam Azad, also a former Awami League lawmaker for Jamalpur-5 constituency,聽 in their custody for interrogation for seven days in a murder case.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 deputy commissioner for media, Muhammad Talebur Rahman, said that a team of the Detective Branch of DMP arrested former minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury at a location in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan Sunday evening.
DMP officials said that Saber was arrested as he was wanted in several cases lodged with different police stations in the capital.
Saber is a former AL lawmaker for Dhaka-9. His expertise in environmental policy and climate diplomacy earned him the special envoy role to the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in 2023.
He was also elected lawmaker with AL ticket in the elections held in 2008, 2014 and 2018.
DC Talebur said that the members of DMP鈥檚 DB also arrested home ministry鈥檚 former senior secretary Aminul Islam at Banani in the capital Sunday afternoon.
He, however, could not mention the case in which Aminul was arrested.
The Rapid Action Battalion said that they arrested former AL lawmaker Asaduzzaman Asad at the capital鈥檚 Baridhara Sunday afternoon.
He was arrested in a case lodged with Boalia police station in Rajshahi district over opening fire on students during the Students Movement Against Discrimination on July 19, said RAB media and legal wing director Lieutenant Colonel Munim Ferdous.
Asad is also a former general secretary of the Rajshahi district unit of the AL.
Court officials said that Dhaka additional chief judicial magistrate Jiadur Rahman allowed the police to take former PMO principal secretary and former AL lawmaker Abul Kalam Azad in their custody for interrogation for seven days in the case filed over the murder of Juba Dal leader Shamim in the capital鈥檚 Naya Paltan area during BNP鈥檚 grand rally on October 28, 2023.
The police arrested Azad at Dhanmondi in Dhaka Saturday afternoon.
