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The Detective Branch of police has arrested an expelled leader of Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad in an extortion case involving the family of former Awami League MP Shammi Ahmed in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

Jane Alam Apu, joint convener of the student organisation, was arrested from the capital’s Wari area early yesterday, said Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Apu was expelled from the organisation on July 26 after the extortion allegations against him surfaced.

According to law enforcement officials, Apu and Abdur Razzak Riyad, an expelled leader of Students Against Discrimination (SAD), had allegedly been leading an extortion racket.

Briefing reporters at the DMP media centre yesterday afternoon, Talebur said they are investigating the extortion case with due importance.

In primary investigation, police found that Apu and Riyad went to the Gulsan house of the ex-lawmaker for the first time on July 17 and demanded Tk 50 lakh in extortion. They left after taking Tk 10 lakh in cash that day, Talebur said.

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