Joint forces arrested former lawmaker from Jhenidah-3 constituency Major Gen (retd) Md Salahuddin Miaji from Jashore Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.
Locals and students besieged Shyamolchhaya Park, owned bySalahuddin, in Rudrapur village of Chachra union under the upazila, on Tuesday evening getting a secret information that the former lawmaker had been staying at the park.
The protesting people tried to enter the park but failed due to intervention of the joint forces. Later around 11PM, the joint forces detainedSalahuddin, former military secretary to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, from the park and handed him over to Detective Branch (DB), Manjurul Haque Bhuiyan, officer in-charge of Jashore DB.
Salahuddin will also be handed over to Jhenidah police on Wednesday, the DB official added.
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