Former controversial education minister Dipu Moni arrested

Former social welfare minister Dipu Moni has been arrested by the police. Police informed that he was arrested from Baridhara area of ​​the capital on Monday evening.

The media department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police informed about the arrest of Dipu Moni around 8 o'clock tonight.

Dipu Moni is the Joint General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League. He was previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Education of the Awami League government.

After Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country on August 5 in the face of the student-Janata movement, the leaders of Awami League and its allied and fraternal organizations went into hiding. Former ministers, government officials and people holding various important positions of the state are in the list of absconding. Some of them are being arrested.

The news of the arrest of a minister of the Sheikh Hasina government first came on August 13. On that day, former Law Minister Anisul Haque and former prime minister's private industry and investment advisor Salman F Rahman were arrested from Sadarghat area of ​​Dhaka by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. Later, during their quota reform movement, a hawker was killed in a clash in front of Dhaka College and arrested in a murder case filed at Newmarket police station.

Then on August 14 former Deputy Speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku; DMP reported the arrest of former Minister of State for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak and Chhatra League's Dhaka University Branch General Secretary Tanveer Hasan Saikat in the case of Paltan police station. According to the police, these three were arrested while hiding from Nikunj residential area of ​​Khilkhet police station.

Major General Ziaul Ahsan, who was recently discharged from the army, was arrested on August 16. He was last Director General of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Center (NTMC), the national telecom watchdog. He was also arrested in the murder case of Newmarket police station.

On the night of August 16, former Water Resources Minister and Awami League Member of Parliament Ramesh Chandra Sen was arrested by the police from his house in Thakurgaon. He was also arrested in a murder case.