Chattogram police superintendent Jahangir Alam arrested in sedition case

Police Superintendent (SP) Mohammad Jahangir Alam has been arrested in Chattogram in a case filed on allegations of sedition. He was serving as a superintendent of police in the Chattogram Range Reserve Force. He was arrested from the Police Officers' Mess on Saturday night.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Hasan Md Shaukat Ali confirmed the matter. He said SP Jahangir Alam had been arrested in the case filed on allegations of sedition.

Assistant Superintendent of Police Abul Kashem of the Range Reserve Force, Chattogram, filed the case against him as plaintiff at Panchlaish Police Station in the city on Saturday night. The case brings allegations of assisting sabotage activities against the SP.

Several media outlets reported that he was arrested on allegations of contact with the banned Awami League and leaking information. Police sources say there are allegations that SP Jahangir Alam communicated and exchanged information with leaders of the banned Awami League on both his personal and official mobile phones.

Earlier, on Tuesday, SP Jahangir Alam's two mobile phones were seized and he was kept under surveillance. Chattogram Range DIG Abdul Kuddus Chowdhury confirmed the matter at the time. However, he declined to say why the two phones had been seized.

Four days after the phones were seized and he was placed under surveillance, the case was filed against him at Panchlaish Police Station on Saturday night, and he was arrested from the Police Officers' Mess the same night.