Awami League advisory council member and AL-led 14 party alliance coordinator Amir Hossain Amu was arrested on Wednesday from the city鈥檚 West Dhanmondi area.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Talebur Rahman said that former industries minister Amir Hossain Amu was arrested in West Dhanmondi area in Dhaka on Wednesday.
A team of detective branch police arrested Amu in the morning, he said.
Police said that Amu was accused in 15 cases, including murder and crimes committed against the humanity during the July-August uprising.
He was elected lawmaker from Jhalakati-2 constituency three times and served as minister of industries during 2014鈥�2019.
The AL veteran was hiding since the fall of the AL regime in the face of a student-mass uprising that forced prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country on August 5.
Besides, a Dhaka court on Wednesday placed actress Shomi Kaiser and Gaan Bangla chairman Kaushik Hossain Taposh on remand in an attempt to murder case.
Shomi Kaiser and Kaushik were placed on three-day remand each in an attempt to murder case.
Both were accused in the case lodged over attempt to murder businessman Ishtiak Mahmud on July 18 during the anti-quota student movement.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Saifuzzaman passed the order, denying bail pleas filed by Shomi and Taposh.
Police arrested Shomi Kaiser from a house on Road-6 of sector-4 of the city鈥檚 Uttara area on Wednesday, while Taposh too was arrested from Uttara on November 4.
According to the case documents, Ishtiak Mahmud along with others joined a rally of the student movement on July 18.
As the rally reached Azampur Nawab Habibullah High School in Uttara Sector-4, AL men fired indiscriminately at the protesters.
One bullet hit Ishtiak in the abdomen, and he was rushed to Evercare Hospital where he underwent treatment for his injuries.
On September 29, Ishtiak Mahmud filed a case with Uttara East Police Station against 126, including Sheikh Hasina.
