AL leader Belal held

FE Team | Published: May 30, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Police arrested Anandapur Union Awami League general secretary and Anandapur union council member Belal Hossain Patwary from Matiranga in Khagrachhari for his alleged involvement in the murder of Phulgazi Upazila chairman Ekramul Haq. The photo was taken

KHAGRACHHARI, May 29 (UNB): Police arrested Awami League (AL) leader Belal Hossain Patwary, one of the masterminds of the murder of Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque Ekram, from a house in Matiranga upazila here early Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of police, led by officer-in-charge M Main Uddin Khan of Matiranga Police Station, raided the house of one Abul Bashar of Alauddin member Para in Barnal union around 2 am today and arrested Belal, general secretary of Fulgazi upazila's Anandapur union unit Awami League and son of Raja Mia Patwary.
With Belal's arrest, the number of arrestees in the Ekramul murder case now stands at 22. Belal was said to be a close aid of slain Ekram.