Police arrested Rajshahi’s Arani municipality Mayor Muktar Ali from Pabna’s Pakshi area on Friday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Detective Branch of Rajshahi police arrested the mayor, who had been on the run for a couple of days, from his relative’s house in Pabna around 5am.
Police carried out a search at Muktar’s house in Arani following his arrest and seized four bottles of phensedyl, 100 grams of cannabis, a locally made sharp weapon and Tk1.32 lakh in cash from there.
Rajshahi Sadar Additional Superintendent of Police Iftekhar Alam confirmed the matter.
On Wednesday, Rajshahi police raided Muktar’s house and seized four firearms, 43 bullets, some drugs and around Tk1 crore in cash.
The municipality mayor’s wife Jasmine Akhter and his nephews Sohan and Shanto were arrested at the time as well. Muktar had been in hiding since then.
Mayor Muktar Ali is currently accused in eight cases on different charges.
In a press briefing at the Rajshahi Superintendent of Police's office on Wednesday, SP ABM Masud Hossain alleged that Mayor Muktar and his aides went to an adjacent drug store of an assistant professor named Majnu in a drunken state on Tuesday night and started a commotion.
Majnu went inside the house out of fear, but the mayor and his associates entered the house and started beating him. When Majnu’s son and wife came to save him, the mayor beat up and injured them as well.
SP Masud further said Majnu had worked against the mayor in the last municipal elections in favour of the boat symbol.
Majnu filed a case later that night against Mayor Muktar, Angur, 32, and three to four other unidentified persons with Bagha police station.
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