Law enforcers detained former general secretary of the Chittagong city unit of Chhatra League Nurul Azim Rony from Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport in Dhaka while leaving the country early Friday.
Rony is also a member of the Youth and Sports Sub Committee of the central Awami League and a close associate of former Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel.
Sources at the airport said the immigration police detained him at the airport. He was scheduled to board a plane, but his planned destination could not be known.
Mosaddek Ali Ibne Mohammad, an assistant coordinator of Chittagong city unit of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, in a Facebook post around 11:30pm on Thursday urged people to detain Rony who allegedly created anarchy in Chittagong during the movement.
The post also said "Rony is the main culprit behind the barbaric attack on the students of Chittagong and the most shootings. Try to detain him as he is now at Chittagong airport. ’
On July 16, students called for a rally in the city’s Sholoshahar area. Rony also placed a counter political program on the same spot.
At one stage of the program, some miscreants, allegedly led by Rony opened fire on the students, leaving several injured.