Ex-AL MP Opu arrested in Dhaka: DB

Detectives have arrested former Awami League MP Shafiqul Islam Opu (Jhenaidah-2) from Dhanmondi area in Dhaka, reports UNB.

Superintendent of Police Manjur Morshed said a Detective Branch (DB) team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested him from a house on Sunday.

A police team from Jhenaidah went to Dhaka to bring him back and he would be produced before a court on Monday, he said.

Former MP Opu is accused in three cases including for vandalism and arson on BNP office in the district.

He was elected MP from the Jhenaidah-2 seat with boat symbol in 2008 election by defeating BNP- candidate Moshiur Rahman.

In 2014 election, he lost to independent candidate Tahjib Alam Siddique.

Opu became president of the district unit of Awami League after then president and Jhenaidah-1 AL MP Abdul Hay had died on March 24 last year.

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