Police on Thursday detained BNP Education Secretary Khairul Kabir Khokan and two others near the party's headquarters at Naya Paltan as the opposition enforced a day-long nationwide shutdown demanding release of senior leaders.
Paltan Police Station Officer in Charge Shahidul Haque confirmed that the trio was picked up around 9.25am. "They have been taken to the Detective Branch office."
One of them has been identified as BNP activist Manjurul Haque, while the third is yet to be named.
Security personnel cordoned off the BNP' headquarters from Wednesday night. A large number of police have been deployed in the area and they have stopped anyone entering the office since morning.
Law enforcers took control of the streets in Dhaka from dawn keeping the opposition supporters away.
On Wednesday, six buses and a taxi were torched in Dhaka on the eve of the nationwide shutdown demanding release of top opposition leaders jailed in a case over arson during a similar general strike.
Earlier, a Dhaka court ordered into jail BNP's Acting Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other opposition alliance leaders after refusing them bail in a case filed over charges of torching of a bus in front of the Prime Minister's Office during a shutdown on Apr 29.
The general strike on Apr 29 had been enforced in protest against the disappearance of one of BNP's organising secretaries, M Ilias Ali.
Paltan Police Station Officer in Charge Shahidul Haque confirmed that the trio was picked up around 9.25am. "They have been taken to the Detective Branch office."
One of them has been identified as BNP activist Manjurul Haque, while the third is yet to be named.
Security personnel cordoned off the BNP' headquarters from Wednesday night. A large number of police have been deployed in the area and they have stopped anyone entering the office since morning.
Law enforcers took control of the streets in Dhaka from dawn keeping the opposition supporters away.
On Wednesday, six buses and a taxi were torched in Dhaka on the eve of the nationwide shutdown demanding release of top opposition leaders jailed in a case over arson during a similar general strike.
Earlier, a Dhaka court ordered into jail BNP's Acting Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other opposition alliance leaders after refusing them bail in a case filed over charges of torching of a bus in front of the Prime Minister's Office during a shutdown on Apr 29.
The general strike on Apr 29 had been enforced in protest against the disappearance of one of BNP's organising secretaries, M Ilias Ali.
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