BNP Standing Committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy was held today a day after the clash at Dhaka’s Bakshibazar and ahead of BNP’s “high-tension” rally in Gazipur tomorrow.
However, police did not ascertain as to why the BNP leader was detained.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective wing Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman said Goyeshwar was held from his Siddeshwari residence in Dhaka city around 6:00am.
A team of detectives raided Ayesha Complex, the residence of the BNP policymaker, and detained him, he said. “He is being kept under the custody of the detective branch.”
