Adam Tamizi Haque, an expelled ruling party leader, has been sent to a rehabilitation centre for a mental health check, where doctors are examining him, the chief of Detective Branch of police said on Sunday.
He was a member of the executive committee of Dhaka city (North) unit Awami League before being expelled on September 18 this year.
There is a case filed against Tamizi, who is also the Chairman of Haque Group, under the Digital Security Act over the burning of a Bangladeshi passport on Facebook Live, said DB. The Facebook Live video went viral a couple of days before his expulsion.
DB chief Harun Or Rashid said on Sunday that Tamizi came on social media recently and said various incoherent things. He burned the passport, accused the Bangladesh government of conspiring against him.
"Hearing these words, there is a doubt about whether Tamizi Haque is mentally sound," Harun said, adding that he also has some family problems. That is why he was sent to the rehab doctor.
"If the doctors say he is mentally unbalanced, then we have nothing to do. But if he did it intentionally, then we will investigate whether there was someone else behind it," Harun told journalists at his office in the capitals Minto Road on Sunday.
Tamizi Haque was taken to the DB office in the capitals Minto Road for interrogation around 10:00pm on Saturday. Earlier on November 16, RAB men raided Tamizis house on Road 111 in Gulshan.
On September 18, Awami League decided to expel Tamizi Haque from the party for criticising the party, the government, and a State Minister on Facebook Live.