Chy Alam picked up by Rab
Dhaka City Corporation Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka yesterday demanded DCC ward councillor and BNP central leader Chowdhury Alam be immediately released or produced before a court.
At a press conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity, he claimed that plain-clothes members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested Alam also president of BNP Ramna unit at the city's Farmgate area on June 25.
Walid Hossain, additional police commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, however, rejected the claim, declaring that law enforcement agencies did not arrest Alam.
Khoka urged the authorities to produce Alam before the court without further delay, as his family members remain worried being unable to trace his whereabouts.
The mayor alleged that Rab members apprehended Alam by halting his car at Farmgate around 9:00pm on June 25, two days prior to the June 27 hartal.
A general diary has been filed with the Gulshan Police Station.
The mayor urged the prime minister and home minister to take necessary measures to track down Alam or produce him before the court if he has been detained.
"He may be brought under trial if he committed a crime but he cannot just disappear without an explanation," he added.
Alam's family members and a few DCC councillors were also present at the press conference.
Earlier on June 25 UNB released a news item quoting BNP leader Emran Saleh Prince who said Chowdhury Alam was arrested from Naya Paltan at 9:30pm while leaving the party's central office.
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