Police Detective Branch (DB) Chief Harun-Or-Rashid said on Friday afternoon that BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury was arrested on charge of killing a police constable during recent violence.
The murder case was filed against him with Paltan police station.
The DB chief said this after being asked about the detention of the BNP leader who was picked up from his Gulshan residence in the capital early Friday.
Harun, also additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said, “We have been lookingfor Amir Khasru Mahmud for many days. He went into hiding and we arrested him from the house last night. He was arrested in a police murder case filed with the Paltan police station.”
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Amir Khasru is the fourth accused in the police murder case and police will place a petition for 10-day remand for him, he said, adding that the law enforcers will arrest the rest of the accused involved in the murder.
The DB chief said you (journalists) know that one police member was beaten to death in broad daylight and many more injured are fighting for lives at Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
“I think the accused in the case must be handed over to the law," he said.
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Earlier, BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas and its joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal were arrested from the capital's Shajahanpur area on Tuesday night.
Law enforcers on Sunday raided the houses of both leaders following violent clashes in the city’s Nayapaltan and Kakrail areas on Saturday centring BNP’s grand rally, but they did not find them there.
Meanwhile, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was arrested in a case filed over vandalising chief justice's residence during his party’s grand rally on October 28.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate later sent him to jail after rejecting his bail petition.
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