Former Chattogram MP Abu Reza Nadwi arrested in Dhaka

Police detectives have arrested Abu Reza Mohammad Nezamuddin Nadwi, a former member of parliament from Chattogram’s Lohagara-Satkania constituency, from Dhaka’s Uttara. DMP spokesperson Deputy Commissioner Talebur Rahman said he was detained "in a state of hiding” on Sunday night, bdnews24 reports.

The police officer, however, did not specify what charges Nadwi had been arrested on.

The former MP was the chairman of the Allama Fazlullah Foundation and a professor at the International Islamic University Chittagong, or IIUC.

He was elected to parliament from Chattogram-15 seat as an Awami League candidate in the 10th and 11th parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2018.

Nadwi, who joined the Awami League after leaving Jamaat-e-Islami in 2014, was defeated by independent candidate Abdul Motaleb in the 12th general election this year.

He is a parliamentary standing committee member on the religious affairs ministry and the governor of the Bangladesh Islamic Foundation.