Journalist Anis Alamgir has been taken to the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police (DB) office. Speaking to the media, Alamgir said, “I was taken from a gym in the Dhanmondi area. The DB officials told me that their chief would speak with me.”
This statement was made by him when a national daily contacted his mobile phone shortly after 8:30pm on Sunday night. He explained that he had been picked up from Dhanmondi around 7:30pm and had reached the DB office around 8:00pm.
Since then, he had been waiting, but he had not yet spoken to the DB chief till the filing of this report.
Responding to a query, DB chief Md Shafiqul Islam said, “Alamgir has been taken to the DB office for questioning, and a decision regarding him will be made after the interrogation.”
Anis Alamgir has worked with various media outlets, including Ajker Kagoj. Recently, he had been in the news for his remarks on television talk shows.
