Detectives have arrested former Awami League MP Shafiqul Islam Opu (Jhenaidah-2) from Dhanmondi area in Dhaka.
Superintendent of Police Manjur Morshed said a Detective Branch (DB) team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested him from a house on Sunday.
A police team from Jhenaidah went to Dhaka to bring him back and he would be produced before a court on Monday, he said.
Former MP Opu is accused in three cases including for vandalism and arson on BNP office in the district.
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He was elected MP from the Jhenaidah-2 seat with boat symbol in 2008 election by defeating BNP- candidate Moshiur Rahman.
In 2014 election, he lost to independent candidate Tahjib Alam Siddique.
Opu became president of the district unit of Awami League after then president and Jhenaidah-1 AL MP Abdul Hay had died on March 24 last year.