The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested Awami League presidium member and former shipping minister Shajahan Khan in the early hours of Friday (6 September).
He was arrested from a house in the capital's Dhanmondi area, said DMP Additional Commissioner (Investigation) Rezaul Karim Mallik.
The police officer, however, did not disclose in which case the AL leader has been arrested.
Details will be informed media later, added Mallik, also chief of detective branch (DB) police.