Ex-minister Obaidul Muktadir arrested

Former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury was arrested from Mirpur in Dhaka on Thursday night.

DMP Additional Commissioner (DB) Rezaul Karim Mallick early Friday said that a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police detained him.

The former minister has been arrested in a murder case filed over the death of a madrasa student in a clash between the activists of Awami League and Hefazat-e-Islam in Brahmanbaria in 2021, he said.

He will be produced before a court on Friday and they will seek a remand to interrogate him.

Muktadir Chowdhury is a former Awami League lawmaker from Brahmanbaria-3. He was first elected in a by-election in 2011. He was a fourth-time MP from Awami League.