Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president and former information minister of Awami League government, Hasanul Haq Inu, was arrested on Monday at Uttara in Bangladesh capital Dhaka.
He was arrested in a murder case filed with New Market police station, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s additional deputy commissioner for media and public relations, Obaidur Rahman Shamim.
Abdur Rahman, brother-in-law of victim trader Abdul Wadud, filed the case with the New Market police station on August 21 against 130 people, including deposed prime minister and AL president Sheikh Hasina and AL general secretary Obaidul Quader and Hasanul Haq Inu.
Workers Party of Bangladesh president Rashed Khan Menon was arrested and placed on five-day remand in the same case.
Both leaders are close allies to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina while Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod and Workers’ Party of Bangladesh are the most active parties of AL-led political alliance.
Hasina resigned and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
Jasod in a press statement called on the interim government to ensure safety and security of its arrested president Hasanul Haq Inu in police custody.
The party also demanded producing him before the court without delay and ensuring scope for self-defence.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Monday placed Awami League publicity and publications secretary Abdus Sobhan Miah Golap on a seven-day remand and journalist couple Ekattor Television’s former head of news Shakil Ahmed and chief reporter Farzana Rupa on a five-day remand each in a murder case filed with the Adabor police station.
All of the three were remanded in a case in connection with the murder of garment worker Fazlul Karim.
On August 22, journalist couple Rupa and Shakil was placed on four-day remand in the same case.
Earlier on Sunday, police arrested Golap from West Nakhalpara in the capital at about 3:30pm on Sunday in a murder case filed with the Adabor police station.
Golap was the former AL lawmaker from Madaripur-3 constituency. He was also a special assistant to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
After the fall of Hasina, the then government ministers, AL leaders, civil administration and military officials were arrested and many of them are on the run to avoid arrests.
Sheikh Hasina’s private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman, former law minister Anisul Huq, former education minister Dipu Moni and former National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre director general Ziaul Ahsan were now facing the second round of remand.
New Age