Dhaka south city unit BNP Acting Member Secretary Tanveer Ahmed Robin was arrested by plainclothes police at the nightingale crossing in the capital in the early hours of Sunday.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested him around 12:30am as he came out of the party’s Nayapaltan central office.
Khondkar Nurunnabi, joint commissioner of Police (cyber and special crime and DB-North), confirmed that they arrested Robin.
Earlier at an unusual press briefing at 3am at BNP’s central office, Rizvi alleged that the DB police picked up Robin when he was going home on a motorcycle from the party office.
He said Robin’s family members went to the DB office to inquire about him, but the on-duty officers were not admitting the arrest of the BNP leader.
Even though the DB police picked up 6 Chhatra Dal leaders on Friday, Rizvi said the law enforcers did not admit it. “Later, they were shown arrested with weapons. This is the condition of the law enforcement agencies.”
He demanded the immediate release of Robin.
Rizvi said the members of the DB police took position near the BNP’s central office on Saturday night and arrested at least 15 party leaders and activists who came out of it.
BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Gayeshwar Chandra Roy visited the party office at midnight hearing the news of the arrest of the BNP leaders and activists by the DB police.
Rizvi along with many other party leaders and activists stayed overnight at the office to avoid arrest.
Robin, son of former BNP MP and the party’s commerce affairs secretary Salahuddin Ahmed, was made acting member secretary of BNP’s Dhaka south unit on June 6 last.
His father was also arrested by the DB police on August 3 last from the capital's Jatrabari area.
