Kishoreganj BNP leader remanded
A BNP leader here has been remanded for five days in an extortion case filed with Kishoreganj police station.
Municipality unit BNP secretary Ismail Hossain Modhu was remanded after police produced him before the court of magistrate Abu Taher Md Sayed yesterday.
Joint forces arrested him from Tarapasa area in the town on Sunday.
Kishoreganj police station officer-in-charge (OC) Abu Md Fazlul Karim, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, said Kishoreganj road transport association secretary Alamgir Murad Reja filed the extortion case against Madhu.
The complainant said the BNP leader used to realise illegal toll from all buses plying from Kishoreganj to Dhaka and Chittagong during four-party alliance rule.
Joint forces filed another against the BNP leader under Emergency Powers Act, police sources said.
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