Detectives arrested former Awami League MP Shafiqul Islam Opu (Jhenaidah-2) from a house at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Sunday.

Superintendent of Police Manjur Morshed said a Detective Branch (DB) team under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) conducted the raid.

Afterwards, a police team was dispatched to take him back to Jhenidah and he would be produced before a court in the district on Monday, he said.

Former MP Opu is accused in three cases for offences including vandalism and arson on a BNP office in the district.

In 2008 election, he was elected MP from the Jhenaidah-2 seat with boat symbol after he defeated BNP- candidate Moshiur Rahman.

In 2014 election, he lost to independent candidate Tahjib Alam Siddique.

Opu became president of the district unit of Awami League after then president and Jhenaidah-1 AL MP Abdul Hay died on 24 March last year.