
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury was picked up by law enforcement agency from his Uttara house in the capital at about 10:00pm on Saturday.
BNP press wing member Shamsuddin Didar confirmed the news to ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·.
Earlier on the day, a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court placed the main opposition BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan and its senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on a one-day remand in a case filed on charges of violence.
Metropolitan magistrate Mosharraf Hossain passed the order as Paltan thana police produced them before the court, seeking two-days remand for interrogation.
General recording officer of Paltan police station at the Dhaka metropolitan magistrates’ court sub-inspector Alamgir Hossain confirmed the matter.
Defence lawyers submitted petition before the court, seeking bail for the two BNP leaders but the court rejected the plea after hearing.
Early Saturday, the law enforcement agency arrested Nazrul Islam Khan from his residence in Dhaka.
Rizvi was arrested in front of the National Press Club Friday afternoon during a BNP rally, protesting the attacks on students in the ongoing movement, demanding reform of quota system in government jobs.
The case was filed with Paltan police station after recovering crude bombs and arms from BNP’s Naya Paltan office on July 9 during a raid of police’s detective branch.