Moudud, Anwar, Rafiqul detained Senior Correspondent, bdnews24 Published: 2013-11-08 21:19:01.0 BdST Police have detained BNP Standing Committee members Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia, hours after the 18-Party alliance declared a 72-hour nationwide shutdown starting from Sunday. Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman confirmed their detention on Friday night, but declined to say anything further. The law enforcers, meanwhile, had surrounded the Gulshan office of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia since the afternoon. Moudud’s APS Shahidul Islam said the BNP MP was at Karwan Bazar when police came and whisked him away. He attended a programme at the Sonargaon Hotel at the evening, Islam said. “Police stopped his car around 8:10pm when he was on his way home and took him to a SUV and went towards the DB headquarters.” Anwar’s PS Bashir Ahmed said the two other senior leaders were also detained when they were returning from the same event. After a meeting of the BNP-led opposition coalition at Khaledas office at Road No. 2 in Gulshan-2 earlier in the day, acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the three-day general strike from Sunday to Tuesday. As the alliance leaders left the office, a large police force was reinforced on the streets around the Opposition Leaders office at around 5pm. DMP’s Gulshan zone Assistant Commissioner Nurul Amin told bdnews24 that police presence had been beefed up around Khaleda’s office and residence ‘for the sake of her security’.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:53:39 +0000
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