Several firefighting units have been dispatched to the factory in the Bayezid Textile area
Mostafa Farooq, 36, who was involved in updating the voter list, was apprehended from Mominbag residential area in the city, Deputy Commissioner Md Shahidullah of the counter-terrorism unit said in a news conference on Friday.
Mostafa is involved in making fake NID cards. Police recovered two laptops from him with one stolen from the Election Commission’s local office, said Shahidullah.
Mostafa had worked as a technical support staff for the voter list update programme under the Boalkhali Upazila Election Office.
Joynal Abedin, the office assistant at the EC office in Chattogram who was arrested earlier on charges of assisting Rohingya refugees to obtain NID cards, provided information about Mostafa, during an interrogation.