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| Obaidul Quader arrested, ex-Jamaat MP surrenders |
| 2007-03-10 |
| The joint forces arrested Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Obaidul Quader, raiding another AL leader's house in the city's Khilgaon area early yesterday. In Satkhira, former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Gazi Nazrul Islam, who like Quader is among the 50 graft suspects listed recently by the government, surrendered to the joint forces yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, ex-state minister for education ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon has been sued for extortion, looting and assault. Three cases have been filed against him with the Cognisance Court in Chandpur in three days since March 6, court sources said. In another development, members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized a Mercedes-Benz automobile of detained AL leader and former minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain from Suvastu Tower at Panthapath yesterday, sources said. Later, the luxury car was taken to Rab-2 office at Maghbazar. Besides, the army-led crack forces arrested senior vice-president of Sramik Dal Abul Kashem Chowdhury and Bogra's Gabtoli municipal Chairman Morshed Milton in separate raids at Gulshan in the capital yesterday. Sources said Kashem is an influential trade union leader while Morshed was a close aide to Tarique Rahman, the detained senior joint secretary general of BNP. |
| Posted by:Fred |