TDS Desk:

Former state minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat was arrested from Dhaka’s Gulshan area on Tuesday.

A case was filed against Arafat on 20 August in connection with the death of a vegetable seller in Rangpur during the recent student movement.

Arafat, as an Awami League candidate, won the 12th Parliament election from Dhaka-17 seat and later, took oath as state minister for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Further detail could not be known immediately.