RAB Arrests BNP Veteran Altaf Hossain Chowdhury

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) vice chairman air vice marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury has been arrested.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested him from Gazipur district’s Tongi, a message from RAB media wing revealed on Sunday (November 5) morning.

Altaf Hossain has been arrested over the the case filed in connection with the attack on the chief justice’s residence on 28 October.

Altaf Hossain was a former home minister and chief of the air force from 1991 to 1995.

Many top BNP leaders including secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and Mirza Abbas were arrested since BNP's grand rally on 28 October which was marred by violence.