<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Nearly 10 hours after his detention, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was shown arrested in a case filed over vandalising Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan’s residence during his party’s grand rally on Saturday.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Faruk Hossain said the BNP Secretary General was shown arrested in a case filed with Ramna Police Station in connection with ransacking the Chiefs Justice’s house.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, he said Fakhrul was produced before a Dhaka CMM court around 8:10pm.</div><div><br></div><div>Detective Branch (DB) of the DMP detained Fakhrul from his Gulshan residence on Sunday morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Amid BNP’s hartal, a group DB raided Fakhrul’s Gulshan-2 house and detained him around 9:20 am said BNP media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, he was taken to the DB’s Mintoo Road office.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul’s wife Rahat Ara Begum said a team of DB police came to their house in the morning and talked to Fakhrul and others.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the law enforcers first took away all the CCTV camera devices and footage from the building of their house.</div><div><br></div><div>“Ten minutes later, they came back again and took him (Fakhrul) away,” Rahat Ara said.</div><div><br></div><div>She said Fakhrul is very ill and he has been undergoing treatment.</div><div><br></div><div>“I can't accept that a 75-year-old man will be taken away in this way. I hope they will release him after questioning,” Rahat Ara said.</div><div><br></div><div>The detention came as BNP called for a dawn-to-dusk nationwide hartal for Sunday to protest violence centering the party's grand rally at Nayapaltan on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Fakhrul announced the shutdown after suspending the rally abruptly following violent clashes between law enforcers and opposition activists that killed at least two people, including a police constable and injured several hundred others.</div><div><br></div><div>Half an hour after the start of BNP's much-talked-about grand rally at Nayapaltan, the party's leaders and workers locked into a clash with ruling party activists and law enforcers at Kakrail.</div><div><br></div><div>The BNP activists also reportedly attacked the Chief Justice’s house during the clash.</div><div><br></div><div>With the passage of time, violent clashes spread around Nayapaltan, forcing the BNP to abruptly call off the rally. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>