2 BNP leaders held

Our Correspondent, Kushtia
Kushtia town BNP vice president Alamgair Hossain alias Tiger Alam and Alamdanga upazila BNP organising secretary Abdus Sattar were sent to jail yesterday when police produced them before the court following their arrest on Sunday night. Kushtia police arrested Alamgair Hossain alias Tiger Alam, also a director of Kushtia Chamber of Commerce Industries, from his house at about 11:30pm. The court sent him to jail as he was produced before it under the Emergency Powers Rules (EPR). Alam was involved with various criminal activities including sheltering criminals, police said. Rapid Action Battalion arrested BNP leader Sattar from his house at around 8:30pm. He was sent to jail when police produced him before the court under the EPR yesterday.