The police arrested former secretary Bhuiyan Mohammad Shafiqul Islam at a resort in the Kuakata municipality area in Patuakhali early Tuesday.
A team of the Detective Branch arrested him at about 12:30am in the case filed with Shahbagh police station under the Anti-Terrorism Act, said a Dhaka Metropolitan Police press release.
He is alleged to have links with Abdul Latif Siddiqui and others arrested during the 鈥楳ancha 71鈥� discussion at the Dhaka Reporter Unity in the capital on August 28.
Detective Branch inspector Md Akhtar Morshed, also investigation officer of the case, produced Shafiqul before the court of Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Ariful Islam on Tuesday and the court sent him to jail.
The metropolitan police鈥檚 deputy commissioner for media and public relations, Mohamamd Talebur Rahman, said that they were not aware whether Shafiqul was present at the DRU discussion on August 28 but it was found during the investigation that he was involved in organising the Mancha 71 event.
Shafiqul served as the secretary of the Planning Division in 2013. Later in 2015, he was appointed as secretary to the president鈥檚 office.
On Monday, detectives also arrested another former secretary Abu Alam Mohammad Shahid Khan at his Dhaka home in the same case and he was later sent to jail.
The case was filed on August 29 by the police over an August 28 discussion organised by a platform created by 1971 freedom fighters, Mancha 71, at the DRU, which also led to the arrest of 16 people, including former minister and freedom fighter Latif Siddique and journalist Monjurul Alam Panna.
When the discussion was in progress, a group of people claiming to be 鈥楯uly Jodda鈥� stormed into the venue, surrounded and besieged the participants, accusing them of being loyal to the ousted Awami League, allegedly assaulted some of the participants, and handed 16 of the participants over to the police.
Sub-inspector Amirul Islam filed a case against the 16 people and some unidentified others on August 29, alleging them of conspiracy to destabilise the country to oust the interim government.
Later, the 16 participants were shown arrested in the case.
