The Highway Police has fined and filed a case against Ashraful Hossen Alom, popularly known as Hero Alom, for speeding.
His car was stopped in front of Shayestaganj Highway police station on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Habiganj around 2pm on Tuesday.
The controversial figure had been gifted a microbus by a teacher of a school in Chunarughat upazila, and he was on his way to receive the vehicle when he was slapped with the fine. The incident caused him to reach Chunarughat much later than the scheduled time.
Shayestaganj Highway police station OC Mainul Islam said the speed limit on the highway was 80kmph, but the police had clocked Hero Alom's Toyota to be driving 10kmph over that.