Nandail municipality mayor held on sabotage charges
Police arrested the incumbent mayor of Nandail municipality at his Charanipara residence in Nandail upazila of the district yesterday.
Mayor AFM Azizul Haque Pikul, also senior vice president of Nandail upazila unit of BNP, is accused in two cases filed under the Explosive Substances Act, said Ataur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Nandail Police Station.
As a Mymensingh court issued warrant of arrest in the cases against Pikul, police arrested him in the morning, said the OC.
He was later produced before the court which sent him to jail, rejecting his bail prayers.
Demanding Pikul's immediate release, Motahar Hossain Talukder, secretary of the district unit (North) of BNP, said the arrest was made when BNP and its front organisations are preparing for the upcoming municipality polls.
It is nothing but a blue print of the government to win the race uncontested, alleged the BNP leader.
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