Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity Secretary General Mozammel Haque Chowdhury was arrested from his Sanarpar residence at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj on early Thursday.
He was arrested in a case filed with Mirpur Model Police Station on extortion charges from his residence around 3am, said Dadon Fakir, Officer-in-Charge of Mirpur Police Station.
However, the details of the case could not be known immediately, reports UNB.