Jamaat-e-Islami central committee's publicity secretary Adv Motiur Rahman Akand was allegedly picked up from Uttara in the capital on Wednesday (October 25) morning.

Jamaat's Dhaka Metropolitan North Publicity and Media Secretary Ataur Rahman Sarkar confirmed the matter.

He said Motiur Rahman was arrested from his residence in sector 14 at about 11am.

According to Jamaat's Dhaka Metropolitan South publicity secretary Ataur Rahman Sarker, Motiur Rahman Akand has undergone a bypass surgery. He was at United Hospital on Tuesday and had done an MRI there. When he was taking preparation for going to the hospital again, police raided his house and picked him up."

However, police produced Motiur in the court in a case of sabotage this afternoon.

At that time, Sub-Inspector (SI) Shahidul Islam of Uttara West Police Station requested to keep Motiur in jail until the investigation of the case is over.

The matter will be heard in Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jaseem's court around 3 pm today.

BDST: 1434 HRS, OCT 25, 2023
MSK