Online Desk  :   Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, security affairs adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and nine others were sued over abducting, plotting to kill Col (retd) Md Tauhidul Islam Chowdhury. Tauhidul, chief of the personal security team of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, filed the complaint with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Zakir Hossain.

Later, the court after recording statement of the complainant, asked New Market Police Station to file the matter as a first information report (FIR). The other accused in the case are– former director general of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Lt Gen (retd) Md Saiful Alam, Major General (sacked) Ziaul Ahsan, Md Abdul Baten, Md Mokhlesur Rahman, Golam Mostafa Russel, Golam Saqlain, Mahmud Naser Jony, Md Abu Azif and Sirajul Islam Khan.

According to the complainant, Col (retd) Md Tauhidul Islam Chowdhury was picked up by plainclothes security officials from his Elephant Road house on December 27, 2018.  He was sent to jail under two fake cases after keeping him confined in a secret place for two days. After coming out of jail on bail, Chowdhury tried to file a complaint over his detention and confinement but police did not enen record it as general diary.