The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch arrested six leaders of Bangladesh Awami League, its youth front Juba League and its student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League, which is now banned, in Dhaka city since Thursday over murder charges and allegations of taking part in processions.
Held in separate drives from different areas in the city, the arrested are AL Dhaka south city unit executive committee member and its former general secretary Shah Alam Murad, 60, former home minister Sahara Khatun鈥檚 nephew Anisur Rahman who is also AL Dhaka North city unit law affairs secretary, AL鈥檚 youth wing Bangladesh Awami Juba League Dhaka south city unit Ward 50 general secretary Arif Hossain, Dhaka south city Ward 23 former general councillor Md Shakawat Hossain, banned BCL Dhaka University鈥檚 Sir AF Rahman Hall unit vice-president Bappi Raihan, and Juba League Dhaka city Ward 20 president Md Shahabuddin, said a DMP press release issued on Friday.
DB officials said that on Thursday they arrested AL leader Shah Alam Murad from the capital鈥檚 Uttara in the afternoon and Bappi Raihan from Fulbaria bus at about 9:30pm.
DMP DB joint commissioner for south Nasirul Islam said that legal actions against them were underway.
鈥楾hey were arrested over taking part in processions and also in murder cases filed in connection with the student-mass uprising,鈥� he added.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Friday placed former AL Dhaka South GS Shah Alam Murad and AL Dhaka North legal affairs secretary advocate Anisur Rahman on a four-day remand each in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act, state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Mahbub Alam passed the order as police produced the duo before the court and pleaded to place them on a 10-day remand.
According to the case documents, leaders and activists of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League and its associate bodies tried to hold an anti-government rally in the National Stadium area on April 6.
聽Their aim was to carry out subversive activities to destabilise the law and order of the country, BSS reported quoting police.
Later, the police filed the case with the Paltan Police Station.