, May 13 -- Police have detained Advocate Zeenat Sohana Chowdhury, Chattogram divisional leader of the Awami League-backed NGO Suchinta Foundation, from the Atuar Depot area of the port city early Tuesday.

Zeenat, a former member of the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA), was picked up from a residence under Bayezid Bostami police station around 1am, said its officer-in-charge Md Arifur Rahman.

She has been named as an accused in a case filed over a clash between police and followers of Chinmoy Krishna Brahmachari on December 4 last year on the Chattogram Court premises.

The case, filed with Kotwali police station, names 29 people, including Zeenat and leaders of the Awami League, Chhatra League, Jubo League, Swechchhasebak League,...