A Dhaka court on Sunday sent former housing and public works minister Engr Mosharraf Hossain to jail in a case filed over the death of BNP activist Mokbul in the Paltan area of the capital on December 7 in 2022.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ziadur Rahman passed the order after police produced him before the court, seeking confinement in jail, said a court staff.
On September 30, Mahfuzar Rahman, a BNP activist, filed a case with Paltan Model Police Station against 256 people, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and 700 unnamed persons over the killing of Mokbul.
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested former housing and public works minister Mosharraf Hossain.
He was arrested in Dhaka's Bashundhara residential area around 3:00pm on Sunday, according to DB Additional Commissioner Rezaul Karim Mallik.
Sheikh Hasina fled the country on August 5 in the face of a mass uprising in Bangladesh. Top leaders and influential members of parliament, including ministers and state ministers in the Awami League government have been arrested since the formation of the interim government.
Mosharraf was elected as a member of parliament from the Chattogram-1 (Mirsharai) constituency as an Awami League candidate in 1973, 1986, 1996, 2008, 2014 and 2018. He was one of the framers of the Constitution in 1972.
Mosharraf has served as the head of the ministry of housing and public works and the ministry of civil aviation and tourism. This year, his son Mahbub Rahman Ruhel was elected MP for the first time in the 12th national parliamentary elections.
