Former water resources minister Ramesh Chandra Sen was sent to Thakurgaon jail on Saturday under the Explosives Act in a case filed with the Thakurgaon Sadar police station.聽
Ramsesh, also a former AL lawmaker for Thakurgaon-1, was arrested by a team of police headquarters聽 at his house in Ruhia area of Thakurgaon district and taken into custody at about 11:00pm on Friday.
Thakurgaon district superintendent of police Uttam Prashad Pathak said that they produced him before the court and the court sent him to jail.
Superintendent of the police office issued a statement in this regard saying that he was arrested in a case filed with the Thakurgaon Sadar police station.
Ramesh Chandra Sen is a member of Awami League advisory council. He served as water resources minister from 2009 to 2014.
Ramesh first became lawmaker for Thakurgaon-1 in a by election in 1997 and later he was elected in 2008, 2014, 2018 and 2024.
A Chattogram court, meanwhile, on Saturday placed former Awami League lawmaker from Chattogram 11 MA Latif on three-day remand.
Latif was arrested earlier in the day in a case filed over shooting and injuring protesters during the quota reform student movement.
Chattogram metropolitan magistrate Jewel Deb passed the order this afternoon after the police produced him before the court and sought 10-day remand.
Latif was arrested by the police in the Bayazid Bostami area in the morning and sent to the court.
At about 12:30am he was brought to the court, said Fazlul Quader Patwari, officer-in-charge of the Double Mooring police station.
The arrest was made following the case filed by one Ershad with the police station, he added.
According to the case statement, Latif and 15 named and 100 to 150 unnamed individuals have been accused of opening fire on the protesters that left many people injured on August 4.
On August 10, the former lawmaker was allegedly picked up by the army personnel from his relative鈥檚 house in the port city鈥檚 Madarbari area, where he was hiding.