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UP chairman arrested

17 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

A Correspondent, Madaripur

Shibchar police on Tuesday arrested BNP leader and Banskandi Union Parishad (UP) chairman Shahidul Islam on charges of desecrating the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and ransacking Banskandi UP office in 2003. Shahidul is the younger brother of Madaripur district Jamaat-e-Islami secretary Hemayet Hossain Mridha. Police arrested Shahidul from his house at Banskandi. He was later sent to jail custody. Banskandi union Awami League general secretary Hamidul Islam earlier filed a case against Shahidul in connection with the incident.