Former Public Administration Minister arrested

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Farhad Hossain, the former public administration minister and former Member of Parliament from the Meherpur-1 constituency, in the capital's Eskaton area. 

A team of RAB-2 arrested him and later handed him over to Adabor police station on Saturday night.

ANM Emran Khan, RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Senior Assistant Director, and Mahfuz Imtiaz Bhuiyan, Officer-in-charge of Adabar police station, separately confirmed the arrest to Jago News.

Source said, Farhad was arrested in connection with a case filed with the police station over shooting and killing students and the general public on 5 August during the anti-discrimination student movement. He has been handed over to the police station in connection with this case. 

Farhad was first elected as a Member of Parliament in 2014. In 2015, he became the president of the Meherpur district unit of the Awami League. 

He served as state minister for public administration from January 2019 to January 2024 and later as minister of public administration from January 2024 to August 2024.

He was born in 1972 in Meherpur. His father, Chahiuddin Biswas, was the founding president of the Meherpur district unit of the Awami League and an organizer of the Liberation War. Chahiuddin was the Member of Parliament for the Kushtia-5 constituency (now Meherpur-1). In 2022, he was posthumously awarded the Independence Award.