India, June 28 -- Dipankar Das, owner of the Bangladesh-based bookstore Baatighar, was briefly detained by the Chattogram's Kotwali police over a case filed against him in connection with the July-August mass uprising in 2024, which led to the fall of the former PM Sheikh Hasina-led government.

Das was later released.

Confirming the matter, Dipankar told The Daily Star, "A group of policemen came to my Jamal Khan store at the Press Club building and told me that the Assistant Commissioner (AC) of Kotwali Zone invited me to have a cup of tea. Later, I got into their police van and they took me to the officer-in-charge (OC)'s room."

"Later I was taken to another room where an officer asked me to call my friend and requested me not to tel...