Mainul Hosein arrested

Detective Branch of police on Monday night picked up former army-backed caretaker government adviser Mainul Hosein, also an organiser of newly-floated opposition political alliance Jatiya Oikya Front, from the residence of the Front’s top leader ASM Abdur Rob.

‘Barrister Mainul Hosein has been arrested from Uttara in a case filed against him in Rangpur,’ Detective Branch deputy commissioner (north) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Mashiur Rahman, told New Age.

Mainul went to Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal faction president ASM Rob’s residence at Uttara around 9:30pm and Detective Branch police picked Mainul Hosein from Rob’s residence around 10:10 pm, said a staff of the JSD leader.

Sachetan Shikkharti Samaj forms a human chain demanding arrest and punishment of Mainul Hosein in front of National Museum in Dhaka on Monday. — New Age photo

 

Several cases were filed against Mainul at places, including in Dhaka, Rangpur, Jamalpur and Brahmanbaria, for making ‘defamatory remark’ on journalist Masuda Bhatti during a TV talk-show on Tuesday.  

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