The Detective Branch (DB) of police in Narayanganj has detained five BNP leaders following a skirmish during the party's sit-in on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
They were nabbed in Siddhirganj's Shimrail area on the highway on Saturday morning.
The arrestees included Narayanganj BNP Convener Advocate Shakhawat Hossain Khan and Narayanganj Metropolitan Jubo Dal's Sagar Pradhan, Siddhirganj police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Golam Mostafa confirmed.
The identities of the other three could not be confirmed immediately.
At the time of writing, police were firing teargas to disperse the crowd.