Staff Reporter :
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested former Member of Parliament (MP) from the Jhenaidah-2 constituency and district Awami League leader, Tahjib Alam Siddiqui, from Savar in Dhaka on Thursday night.
A Rab-4 team apprehended him in the Nabinagar area of Savar, with the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Jhenaidah Sadar Police Station, Abdullah Al Mamun, confirming the arrest.
The murder, according to case documents, took place in 2013. Tahjib Alam Siddiqui is the Managing Director of Doreen Group, which employs around 10,000 people across various sectors including garments, cement, power, real estate, marine, and trading corporations.
Tahjib Siddiqui has been seriously ill and was in the ICU at United Hospital since May this year.
Family sources have stated that his health condition is deteriorating.
They also expressed concerns that the arrest could lead to hardship for the 10,000 employees of Doreen Group.
Tahjib was produced before the Senior Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court in Jhenaidah, where police requested a 10-day remand for three cases.
The court granted a 3-day remand. The three cases include a murder case filed on 27 August related to the killing of Jamaat worker Abdus Salam 11 years ago, and two arson cases filed on 4 August in connection with attacks on the district BNP office and the home of District BNP President Advocate MA Majid.
Tahjib was elected as an independent candidate in 2014 and as an Awami League-nominated candidate in 2018.
In the 2024 election, he contested again as an Awami League candidate but was defeated by independent candidate Naser Shahriar Zahedi Mahul.
He is the son of the late Nur-e-Alam Siddiqui, former central president of the Chhatra League. Tahjib is also the owner of Dhaka Doreen Power Limited.
