Ex-EC secretary Md Jahangir Alam arrested
Police have arrested former Election Commission secretary Md Jahangir Alam from Dhaka's Gulshan area.
Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner of the Dhaka metropolitan police media wing confirmed the matter.
"We arrested former secretary of home and EC Secretariat Jahangir Alam from Gulshan around 11:30am today," Rezaul Karim Mallick, additional commissioner of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told BSS.
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Jahangir was accused of a number of criminal cases with different police stations, he said.
"We have so far got 10 cases against him and the number of cases may rise," he also said.
The police are now taking preparation to place the arrestee before the court in the afternoon, he added.
Jahangir Alam was the EC secretary in the 12th national election.
After the election, the Awami League-led government appointed him as the home ministry's joint secretary.
He was forced to resign on 14 August following the fall of the Awami League government.
