Dhaka (TIP): The Detective Branch (DB) of Bangladesh Police on Thursday arrested senior professor, writer, and analyst Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah on charges of corruption, police said.
When Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah was produced before the court, the court ordered him to be sent to jail, a lawyer said.
Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah is a professor in the Public Administration Department at Dhaka University. He is also the former Vice Chancellor of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur. He is known as a political commentator, writer, and election monitor. The Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against him, the lawyer said.
Earlier this year, on February 7, Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Dhaka, had admitted that Islamist groups in Bangladesh have got more freedom after Sheikh Hasina left the country. (ANI)