Barrister Kaisar Kamal, Law affairs secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was taken into police custody on Wednesday evening.
He was detained by police from Square Hospital area in the capital and taken to Kolabagan Police Station for interrogation.
Seeking anonymity, a top police official said a Supreme Court lawyer was detained for interrogation in connection with the extramarital affair.
However, we don’t know whether he is a political leader, the police official added.
In this connection, Paritosh Chandra, officer-in-charge of Kolabagan Police Station, said no lawyer named Kaisar Kamal has been arrested yet.