Ward commissioner Salauddin arrested

Police arrested Godagari municipal ward commissioner Salauddin Biswas from in front of municipal office on Saturday afternoon.

 

Salauddin was placed before a court yesterday with a petition for his detention.

 

The court sent him to jail and will hear on the petition today.

 

The police said, Salauddin was recently listed as the godfather of smugglers and terrorists following his activities during last several years.

 

He was arrested a few months back, but was released on bail following political pressures, said the sources.

 

"For his role, Godagari was a safe heaven for heroin smugglers", said a police official at Godagari police station. 

 

Salauddin was accused in two cases of murdering human-hauler peddler Sohel Rana and misappropriating CI sheets of government relief fund.

 

He was also engaged in different anti-state activities and police assault, said the police informing that over 10 general diaries were lodged against Salauddin with the police station.

 

Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) members arrested a terrorist Emajuddin, 45, and seized a pistol loaded with six bullets from his house at Bonga in Tanore upazila early yesterday.

 

On the otherhand, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members seized 240 bottles of Indian smuggled Phensidyl from Puthia and arrested Ripon Sarkar, 20 of Baneswar Garuhata in this connection.