C T Online Desk: The Counter Terrorism & Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested the ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Shafiqur Rahman early hours of Wednesday.
Deputy Commissioner (media) of DMP Faruq Hossain confirmed the news.
However, he didn’t disclose the details of the arrest and the allegations against the Jamaat ameer.
Acting Secretary General of Jamaat ATM Masum in a statement claimed the arrest was made around 1 am from his residence in the capital.
On December 11, the ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami announced a 10-point demand largely overlapping with the BNP’s, and declared a mass rally on December 24 just after the BNP’s announcement.
Shafiqur Rahman was elected the Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer on November 12, 2019.
