2 BNP leaders held, Fakhrul wants their release

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UNB, Chattogram :
Plainclothe police arrested BNP Chattogram divisional organising secretary Mahbubur Rahman Shamim and city BNP General Secretary Abul Hashem Bakkar from the city’s GEC intersection on Monday.
A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested the duo in front of

 Hotel Meridian around 1:45 pm, said city BNP assistant officer secretary Idris Ali.
Mehedi Hasan, Deputy Commissioner (North) of DB Police, Chattogram said the BNP leaders were arrested in a case filed on charge of attacking police on the court premises on Sunday.
On Sunday, a group of BNP leaders and activists swooped on police on the court premises after a court cancelled the bail of party leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury.
Later, a case was filed with Kotwali Police Station against some 150 leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies in this connection.

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