Dhaka: Police arrested Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Dhanmondi Unit president from Hazaribagh area, Dhaka on Friday morning.

Acting deputy commissioner (media) SM Jahangir Alam Sarkar said Hazaribagh police arrested BNP leader Abul Khair Bablu, also a BNP-backed councillor candidate of ward 15, from the area at about 10:30am.

He was arrested in a case filed with Hazaribagh police, he said.

Bablu is a charge-sheeted accused in three cases filed with Dhanmondi police station, he added.