The police on Thursday arrested Trinamool BNP chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury at his home in the capital鈥檚 Banani.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on the day, on the other hand, sent former Dhaka North city mayor Atiqul Islam, former agriculture minister Abdur Razzaque, and former civil aviation and tourism minister lieutenant colonel (retired ) Faruk Khan to jail in separate murder cases.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 deputy commissioner for media, Muhammad Talebur Rahman, said that聽 the detective branch of DMP arrested Shamser Mobin Chowdhury at his Banani home at about 4:00pm.
He said that Shamser was accused in a murder case filed over the October 28, 2023 attack on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 grand rally in Dhaka.
Shamsher, a former foreign secretary, was also a former vice-chairman of the BNP.
Court officials said that
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Ali Haider on Thursday sent former Dhaka North city mayor Atiqul Islam, former ministers and Awami League presidium members Abdur Razzaque and Faruk Khan to jail in separate murder cases.
The police produced Razzaque and Faruk before the court after the end of their two-day remand in police custody in the cases of killing trader Abdul Wadud and murdering BNP activist Md Mokbul, respectively.
On the other hand, police produced former mayor Atiqul before the court in a case filed over the murder of schoolboy Rakib Hasan.
Police later pleaded to show him arrested in two more cases filed over the murders of Al Shahriar Hossain and auto-rickshaw driver Md Roni, with the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur Police Station.
Allowing the police plea, the court showed Atiqul arrested in all three murder cases and sent him to jail, scrapping his bail plea.
The police arrested Atiqul at a location in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali DOHS area.
A Dhaka court on Thursday showed former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, former land minister Narayan Chandra Chanda, and Diamond World Limited managing director Dilip Kumar Agarwala arrested in a case lodged over the murder of BNP activist Md Mokbul in the capital, the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Ali Haider passed the order as police produced the three before the court and pleaded to show them arrested in the case.