Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested three leaders of the banned Awami League and its student wing, Chhatra League, in separate raids in Uttara on Wednesday.
The arrestees are former Krishak League Uttara East organisational secretary Md Nannu Sheikh, 40, former Patuakhali district Chhatra League organisational secretary Salauddin Khan Hira, 27, and Ramail Union Awami League president Md Shahadat Khan, 64, of Brahmanbaria’s Bancharampur.
Uttara West Police arrested Hira from Sector 12 at 3:05 PM, Nannu Sheikh from Azampur Amir Complex in Sector 3 at 5:45 PM and Shahadat Khan from Sector 3 at 7:45 PM.
Police said Nannu Sheikh and Hira were allegedly involved in conspiratorial and destructive activities linked to the banned organisations and shared photographs of those activities on social media.
Legal proceedings against the arrestees are underway.
-AJM