Detectives arrested Md Shaher Alam Murad, former general secretary of Dhaka south unit of Awami League (AL), from Uttara of Dhaka on Thursday morning.
Md Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of the DMP, said Murad, also an executive member of Dhaka metropolitan unit of the AL, was rounded up from a house in Uttara in the morning.
Murad is accused in several cases filed with different police stations in Dhaka.
Following the fall of the AL government on August 5 last, many high-profile AL leaders fled the country while some were arrested.