The Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested central committee leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) from the capital’s Paribagh area on charges of attacking on the anti-discrimination student movement at Shahbagh on July 15, reports BSS.
Iyaz Al Riad, vice president of the central committee of newly banned BCL, Bangladesh Awami League’s student wing.
Iyaz was picked up on Wednesday night hours after the interim government outlawed the BCL on terrorism and other charges.
Muhammad Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (DC-media) of the DMP confirmed the arrest on Thursday.
Iyaz was also former general secretary of Dhaka University's Bangabandhu Hall unit of the BCL.
On 6 August, the authorities arrested general secretary of the DU unit of BCL Tanvir Hasan Saikat from Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
Since the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 no visible activities of the Awami League's student wing BCL have been seen.
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