Former textile and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi was arrested in the early hours of Sunday in the capital’s Shantinagar area in a murder case filed with Rupganj police station.

Confirming the incident, Paltan police station officer-in-charge Molla Md Khalid Hossen said that they arrested him at about 3:00am on Sunday raiding a house at Shantinagar area.

‘We were informed about his whereabouts by the leaders and activists of Students Movement Against Discrimination. They had cordoned the house,’ the OC said.

He said that they had kept him at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch office at Mintoo Road.

DMP media and public relations additional deputy commissioner Obaidur Rahman Shamim said that he was arrested in a case filed with Rupganj police station in Narayanganj.

He said that the case had several charges, including murder.