Sylhet, Nov. 12 -- Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested former lawmaker and Jatiya Party's central leader Yahya Chowdhury from Dhaka's Uttara late Monday.

A media release, signed by Md Mashiur Rahman Sohel, assistant superintendent of police (media) of the RAB-9, said this on Tuesday morning.

A joint team of the RAB-1 and- 9 conducted a drive at a house in the Uttara and arrested him, it reads.

The former lawmaker was shown arrested in a case filed, over the attack on students and people during the recent mass upsurge, with Sylhet's Kotwali police station on October 2.

Yahya, who was elected from Sylhet-2 constituency (Bishwanath-Osmaninagar upazilas) in 2014, discharged duty as standing committee member on the Parliamentary Affairs ...