Police have arrested an Awami League leader from Karwan Bazar area of the capital in connection with the 2015 attack on the motorcade of BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia.
Saimon was arrested on Monday evening. He will be produced before the court on Tuesday in a case filed over the attack and attempted murder, said Tejgaon police station Officer-in-Charge Md Mobarak Hossain.
Earlier, on April 6, police arrested Sabbir Hossain, general secretary of the Awami League’s Motijheel unit, in the same case.
The case was filed on August 22, 2024—nearly a decade after the incident occurred in April 2015 during a campaign for BNP’s mayoral candidate Tabith Awal in the Dhaka North City Corporation elections. At the time, Khaleda Zia’s motorcade came under attack, allegedly by activists of the Awami League, Chhatra League, and Jubo League.
