Hefajat’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Ahmad Abdul Quader arrested in Dhaka

Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Hefajat-e-Islam's Nayed-e-Ameer Ahmad Abdul Quader from Dhaka's Agargaon area this evening.

A team of DB arrested Quader, also secretary general of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish, around 7:00pm, Wahiduzzaman, deputy commissioner (DB-Tejgaon Division) of DMP told The Daily Star.

He was accused in cases filed following Hefajat's violence in 2013 and March this year, the DC said.

Abdul Quader was once central president of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, police said.

With him at least 15 top ranked Hefajat leaders were arrested so far.