Dhaka, March 9 -- A six-storey house belonging to a former Awami League MP has allegedly been occupied by an individual posing as a student representative and turned into an asylum for people with "mental disorders" in Tangail.

Police and locals said the building of former MP and district Awami League General Secretary Joaherul Islam, who is known as VP Joaher, on the city's Choto Kalibari Road was taken over on Saturday morning.

A young woman named Mariam Mukaddas Mishti, who identified herself as a student representative, broke the lock of the house and led the seizure.

Tangail Sadar Police Station chief Tanvir Ahmed said he had heard of the incident from locals.

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