<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested former Housing and Public Works Minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury from Mirpur area, said police on Friday morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The arrest was made on Thursday night, said Reazul Karim Mallik, additional police commissioner (intelligence) of the DMP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The former minister is an accused in several murder cases and he will be produced before a Dhaka court with a prayer for remand, he informed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Muktadir was elected four times from Brahmanbaria-3 seat as an Awami League candidate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He joined Bangladesh Civil Service as an admin cadre in 1983 and worked as personal assistant secretary of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in 1986.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>