Police in a drive arrested chairman of Mawna union parishad Jahangir Alam from Sripur upazila of Gazipur district on Wednesday night in connection with a case filed over extortion and abduction.
Police arrested Jahangir at 9 pm from the upazila.
As soon the as the news spread, the supporters of Jahangir put-up barricade on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway protesting the arrest around 11 pm at Mawna intersection and burned tyres, halting vehicular movement on the highway, said Mahbub Morshed, officer-in-charge of Mawna Highway Police.
The vehicular movement on the highway remained halted till 2 am.
On February 13, Zahirul Islam, manager of Fortune Cable Industries, filed a case against Jahangir and 12 others for abducting him and unleashing torture on him after failing to realise Tk 20 lakh as extortion.
