Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, the president of Juba Dal, the youth front of BNP, has been detained by detectives while on his way to Dhaka from Rajshahi, according to media reports.
His deputy Nurul Islam Noyon was also apprehended at Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka city on Saturday night, BNP sources confirmed.
They were returning to the capital after attending a mass rally of BNP in Rajshahi.
The party's Senior Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, who also attested to the arrest, demanded Tuku’s immediate release.
The detainees were being taken to the headquarters of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s detective branch.
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