Staff Reporter :
Police detained 81 leaders and activists of BNP and its associate organisations, including Jubo Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal, from his Lalmatia residence in the capital on Saturday.
A team of Mohammadpur police conducted a drive around 10:00am, when the party members gathered at the house, said Alal’s Personal Assistant SM Jahangir.
Deputy Commissioner (Tejgaon Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Biplob Kumar Sarkar said on information, a team of Mohammadpur thana police conducted the raid on the house of Alal in Lalmatia and arrested him along with 63 other leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations around 10:30 am.
Police arrested them while coming out of Alal’s house after attending a meeting arranged there to work out a plan to carry out subversive activities during Sunday’s hartal, he added.
“Of the detained leaders and activists, Alal has been handed over to the Detective Branch of Police while the others are now under police custody.”
The Islamic parties have called a dawn to dusk countrywide hartal for Sunday demanding the arrest of former minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui for his derogatory remarks about hajj and Tablig Jamaat. They also demanded maximum punishment for the politician.
