Former army officer arrested over attack on Salman Muqtadir’s studio

Police on Wednesday arrested Major General (retd) Golam Mohiuddin Chowdhury as a listed suspected in the case over vandalism and looting at a housing project of New Gini Properties Ltd at ECB chattar in the capital.

A studio of content creator Salman Muqtadir, which was set up inside the housing project, was severely damaged in the attack on Saturday night.

A team of the Detective Branch (DB) of DMP arrested Mohiuddin Chowdhury, listed as the No 4 accused in the case statement, from a house in the capital’s Segunbagicha area around 2:45pm on Saturday afternoon.

DB Additional Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam confirmed the arrest.

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On Monday, DB’s Gulshan division arrested Mizanur Rahman, son-in-law of Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker of Kushtia-2 constituency, Md Abdul Gofur, from the Paschim Matikata area.

During the attack, police had arrested two other suspects.

On Saturday night, around 50 men attacked the New Gini housing project at ECB chattar with firearms, machetes and sticks, injuring site engineer Md Parvez, among others.

At one point, they also broke into the “Brownfish” studio of Salman Muqtadir, vandalised the facility and looted valuable computer equipment.

The attack caused damages worth nearly Tk1.43 crore, while equipment and cash worth Tk1.50 crore were looted.