Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) joint secretary general Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel was said to have been rearrested on Monday evening near Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj.

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office alleged that plainclothes police rearrested Sohel soon after his release from the central jail around 6:15pm on bail.

Later, he said, Sohel was taken to DB’s Mintoo Road head office.

Contacted, officials of Dhaka Metropolitan Police declined to make any comment, saying they have no knowledge about it.

‘Plainclothes police have picked Sohel up into a vehicle after he came out of the jail on bail he secured from the High Court. Our party men and Sohel’s relatives followed the vehicle and saw it entering the Mintoo Road DB office. We strongly condemn and protest it,’ Rizvi said.

He feared that the law enforcers might have rearrested Sohel with an evil motive.

Rizvi demanded immediate release of their party leader.

He also called upon the local and international human rights organisations to look into the matter.

Sohel, also the member secretary of the party’s Dhaka city unit, was sent to jail on October 9 last year after he had surrendered before the court of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in 41 violence cases.

The cases were filed against him with different police stations in the capital, including Paltan, Motijheel, Jatrabari, Khilgaon, Darussalam and Ramna, during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s anti-government movement in 2015.