AL leader Mithun Chy arrested

RANGPUR, Aug 21 (BSS): Police arrested Awami League (AL) leader Md Mithun Chowdhury, 55, an accused in the auto-rickshaw driver Manik Mia murder case, from the city's Harirampur Nayabazar area on Thursday.

"We arrested Mithun Chowdhury from the Harirampur Nayabazar area of Rangpur metropolis at 12:45 pm," Tajhat Metropolitan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Shahajan Ali told the news agency.

Mithun Chowdhury is the former Darshona Union President of Awami League.

He is the son of the late Naya Mia of the Harirampur Nayabazar area.