“A CID team from Dhaka detained him,” Sylhet Airport Police chief Khan Mohammad Moinul Zakir said. “He was taken to Dhaka straight away.”Shahinur, the central vice president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, was the legal affairs secretary of the recently disbanded Hifazat central committee. Several dozen Hifazat leaders, including Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque, have been arrested over nationwide violence and vandalism by Hifazat activists in March. Those who have been arrested over these incidents have also been accused of having ties to violence in Motijheel in 2013. Shahinur was elected MP from the Sunamganj-3 seat left vacant by the death of Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad in 2005

Source: bd News24 May 07, 2021 04:41 UTC