DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police is set to produce BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir before court on Wednesday with a 10-day remand in a case filed with Paltan thana on charge of instigating violence.

Sources of DB police confirmed the matter to banglanews.

On Tuesday, DB detained Fakhrul moments after he come out of the National Press Club in the afternoon following a nearly 24-hour stay there.

He was taken to DB Headhunters in the city’s Mintoo Road in the city and later shown arrested in that case.
 
Since being detained by DB, Fakhrul has been there. DB will produce him before the court on Wednesday.

Earlier o Tuesday, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) deputy commissioner (DC) M Masudur Rahman told banglanews that Fakhrul has been arrested as he was wanted in several cases and he would be produced before the court on Wednesday.

However, the DC did not mention the specific case for which he was arrested.

Police said some 67 cases had been filed in different thanas under DMP against Fakhrul.

On Monday afternoon, Fakhrul went to the press club to join a program of pro-BNP professions and later he took shelter at the club office while pro-and anti-government activists were chasing and counter-chasing each other on the premises.

** Mirza Fakhrul detained

BDST: 0940 HRS, JAN 07, 2015