Former Awami League MP arrested in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur

Police arrested former Member of Parliament and Awami League leader Moshtak Ahmed Ruhi from Mohammadpur in the capital on Wednesday afternoon.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Tejgaon Division Deputy Commissioner (DC) Md Ibn Mizan said that Moshtak Ahmed Ruhi was arrested from a residence on Iqbal Road in Mohammadpur, and taken into police custody.

Mohammadpur Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdul Halim said that, acting on a tip-off, police conducted a raid on a residence on Iqbal Road in the afternoon, before arresting Moshtak.

Moshtak was elected as a Member of Parliament from the Netrokona-1 (Durgapur-Kalmakanda) constituency on an Awami League ticket in the 12th parliamentary election. He had previously been elected MP from the same constituency on an Awami League ticket in 2008.

Moshtak Ahmed Ruhi had been in hiding since 5 August 2024. Several cases have been filed against him.