Former Bangladeshi minister Golam Dastagir Gazi | Picture credit score: en.wikipedia.org
Bangladesh’s former textiles and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has been arrested in Dhaka as police crack down on officers and ministers of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League authorities, in line with media stories on Sunday (August 25, 2024).
“The 76-year-old chief was arrested on Saturday evening (August 24, 2024) from a home within the capital metropolis Dhaka at round 3 am,” The each day star The newspaper quoted Paltan police station officer-in-charge Mollah Mohammad Khalid Hussain as saying:
“He was arrested by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police and brought to the Detective Division (DB) workplace,” in line with The Dhaka Tribune.
“Gazi was held on the DB workplace as a result of the police station was badly broken following the current violence,” Hussain mentioned, including {that a} group of individuals laid siege to the home after studying of his location there.
Nevertheless, the police officer didn’t present any particulars concerning the case for which he was arrested.
Earlier, a homicide case was filed towards 105 individuals, together with Ms Hasina and Mr Gazi, on the Rupganj police station in Narayanganj.
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Mr Gazi was elected as an MP from the Rupganj-1 constituency in Narayanganj within the twelfth parliamentary elections held in January beneath the Awami League’s boat image.
A Dhaka courtroom on Saturday (August 24, 2024) remanded Salman F. Rahman, Ms. Hasina’s personal business affairs adviser, former regulation minister Anisul Huq, former social welfare minister Dipu Moni and two others in several remand phrases for questioning in 4 homicide instances.
Other than the three, former parliamentary group chief ASM Feroz and former military officer Normal Ziaul Ahsan have additionally been remanded in judicial custody in homicide instances. Instances have been filed towards many officers or ministers of the ousted Hasina-led authorities after she resigned and fled to India on August 5 following huge protests towards the quota reform system in Bangladesh.
Most Awami League leaders have gone into hiding since Hasina’s resignation. A lot of its members are in jail after the brand new interim authorities led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took energy on August 8 following the autumn of the earlier authorities.
