Former minister for cultural affairs Asaduzzaman Noor and former state minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali were arrested from different locations of the city on Sunday night.
A team of Detective Branch (DB) arrested Asaduzzaman Noor at 11:00pm from Nawratan colony at Bailey Road in the capital. He was accused in a case filed with Mirpur Police Station, an official from DMP media wing said.
Noor, a prominent theatre activist, was a former lawmaker of Nilphamari -2 constituency.
Meanwhile, Mahbub Ali was arrested from the city’s Segunbagicha area.
Detectives arrested him from a house there in a case filed with Jatrabari Police Station, Rezaul Karim Mallick, additional commissioner of Detective Branch of DMP, told The Daily Star.
DB officials said they will be produced before a Dhaka court today.
