Dhaka: Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar was released on Wednesday night hours after his detention from the city’s Shahbagh area.

He was freed around 11:00pm following interrogation, said Lt Col Emranul Hasan, commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion-3, reports the UNB.

Earlier, the elite force members detained the Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson in the afternoon.

Witnesses said when Imran and his supporters were gathering in front of the National Museum for holding a rally around 4:30 pm protesting the killings in the ongoing anti-drug drive, RAB members picked him up, dragged him into their van and dispersed his supporters.

Officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station Abul Hossain said Imran H Sarker and his followers had no permission to hold any programme there.