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The Detective Branch (DB) of police detained the secretary general of the Janata Party of Bangladesh, Shawkat Mahmud, from his Malibag residence in the capital on Sunday.
Mahmud was also a former vice-chairman of BNP and a former president of the National Press Club.
Deputy Commissioner of police Talebur Rahman said a team of DB police arrested Mahmud in the afternoon. The official could not provide the details in which cases he was arrested.