Two leaders of banned Awami League and Jubo League arrested in separate raids in the capital
Police have arrested two leaders of the banned Awami League and its affiliated organisations in raids in separate areas of the capital. The arrested men are Md Suman Chowdhury (36), a member of Ward 23 of the Jubo League's Lalbagh unit, and Md Abul Hossain (50), a member of Ward 32 of the Mohammadpur Thana Awami League.
Abul Hossain is a former president of the Babar Road unit Awami League in Mohammadpur.
A Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) press release said Suman Chowdhury was arrested in a raid in the Nawabganj Bazar area of Lalbagh at around 2am on Friday night. He is a suspected accused in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act and has been sent to court.
Abul Hossain, meanwhile, was arrested by police from the Anurager Gali area of Babar Road in Mohammadpur at around 8:15pm on Friday.
Mohammadpur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Abdul Halim said Abul Hossain had been in phone contact with central Awami League leaders.
The OC said police had information that he was staying in the area to create an unstable situation in Dhaka and to run Awami League procession activities.
