Published : 19 Jun 2025, 06:05 PM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 01:25 PM
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch (DB) have arrested former state minister for planning Shamsul Alam.
He was arrested from Dhaka's Mohammadpur early on Thursday morning, the DMP said in a statement.
He is named in several cases filed over the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, but police have yet to confirm in which case he was arrested.
Shamsul joined the cabinet as a technocrat in July, 2021.
A former member of the general economy division of the Planning Commission, Shamsul was honoured with the Ekushey Padak in economics.
Following a 35-year teaching career at Bangladesh Agricultural University, he was deputised as a member of the Planning Commission on Jul 1, 2009. He served there until Jun 30, 2021 on contract.
The Awami League made Shamsul Alam a member of its Advisory Council on May 24, 2022.
