Detectives have arrested Kazi Mamunur Rashid, secretary general of the Raushan Ershad-led faction of the Jatiyo Party, in Dhaka early today.
Mamunur was picked up from in front of hotel The Westin Dhaka around 12:30am as he is an accused in a case filed with a police station in Dhaka, said Rabiul Islam Bhuiyan, joint commissioner (north) of the Detective Branch of police, this morning.
"He was brought to the DB office. He will be produced before court today," the DB official said.
Details of the case could not be known immediately.
On March 9 last year, Jatiya Party officially split as a council loyal to Raushan Ershad elected a new committee for the opposition party in the parliament. The council held at the capital's Institution of Engineers elected Raushan and Kazi Mamunur Rashid as chairman and secretary general respectively.
The split came amid conflict between Raushan and GM Quader, the current president of another faction of JP, centring the party's debacle in last year's January 7 national election.
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