Online Desk  :   Dipu Moni, former social welfare minister, has been arrested from the Baridhara DOHS area in the capital on Monday. Md Ziauddin Ahmed, deputy commissioner (Gulshan division) of Detective Branch of DMP, acknowledging the matter said she was taken to the DB office on Mintoo Road. There is a case against her in Chandpur. She may be shown arrested.

The former minister will be produced before a Dhaka court on Tuesday. Earlier, on August 15, a sabotage case has been filed against Dipu Moni and her brother JR Wadud Tipu for attacking the residence of Sheikh Farid Ahmed Manik, president of the Chandpur district unit BNP. Besides, 510 known and 1,000-1,200 unnamed people were accused in the case.

According to the case statement, armed individuals vandalised, looted, and set fire to Manik’s house on JM Sengupta Road. During the attack, the building’s owner, Sheikh Farid Ahmed Manik, the District BNP president, was out of the country.