Police have arrested BNP Vice-Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka at
Uttara, his aide has said.
The former Dhaka City Mayor’s aide Monirul Islam told bdnews24.com
that detective police had picked Khoka from a house in Uttara on
Wednesday night.
Khoka has been staying at an undisclosed location since he was
implicated in three cases over arson last month. Several top BNP
leaders have recently been arrested and charged of various criminal
offences.
UNB ads: The law enforcers picked up Khoka, also BNP’s Dhaka city unit
convener, from house No 18 at Road-15 of Sector-4 in the posh area
around 9:45pm, said his personal assistant Monir Hossain.
Meanwhile, police and Rapid Action Battalion denied the detention of Khoka.
The BNP leader was accused in two cases recently filed against some
opposition leaders.
Of them, one was filed against 16 opposition leaders, including
Khoka, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and
its joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, on November 29 in
connection with the arson attack of November 28 on a bus in the city’s
Shahbagh area that left three people dead and 15 others injured.
Hours after the filing of the case, plainclothes police stormed into
the BNP central office at Nayapaltan and picked up Rizvi in the early
hours of Saturday.
The other case was filed on Sunday against 15 opposition leaders,
including Fakhrul and Khoka, with Rampura Police Station in connection
with Saturday’s arson attack on a bus in the city’s Malibagh area that
left a man dead and four people injured. – UNB
