Mirza shown arrested 9 hours after detention in policeman killing case
Mirza Fakhrul has been shown arrested in murder and arson cases filed with the Paltan Police Station, DMP Commissioner Md Habibur Rahman told the media at 7:45pm Sunday.
Dhaka: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was shown arrested nine hours after his detention by law enforcement forces today.
“He has been shown arrested in murder and arson cases filed with the Paltan Police Station,” DMP Commissioner Md Habibur Rahman told the media at 7:45pm Sunday.
In the early morning, Mirza Fakhrul was picked up by the Detective Branch (DB) of the police from his Gulshan residence for questioning regarding the violence and the death of a policeman during BNP’s Saturday rally in the capital.
With these two new cases, the lawsuits against the BNP secretary general have now reached one hundred, as per Fakhrul’s earlier claim of facing 98 cases.
Earlier, the BNP said in a media release that the members of law enforcement forces surrounded BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s residence in Gulshan (H-18, Road-71, Gulshan-2) to detain him.
The party also issued another release stating that police surrounded the residence of BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas in the capital’s Shahjahanpur.
BNP observed a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal today in protest of the police action during the party’s Nayapaltan rally on Saturday. The rally was marred by violence and clash with police and Awami League leaving a policeman dead and several people injured.
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