Abdur Rahman Bodi, Photo : Collected
The Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday night informed that they have arrested former Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi of Teknaf-Ukhiya constituency at the GEC intersection in Chattogram city.
“We have arrested former member of the parliament Abdur Rahman Bodi in Chattogram and he is now in our custody,” Md. Sharif-ul-Alam, senior assistant director (media) of RAB-7 told The Daily Messenger.
Legal procedure was under process for handing over him to the police, he added.
Abdur Rahman Bodi, a two-time Member of Parliament for Cox’s Bazar-4 (Ukhia-Teknaf) constituency, was sued in a fresh case filed with Teknaf police station on August 18. Teknaf Upazila Bangladesh Nationalist Party's former president Mohammad Abdullah filed the case against 31 including Abdur Rahman Bodi on charge of attacking them on August 5.
Abdur Rahman Bodi failed to get party nomination in the December 2018 elections amid widespread criticism over his activities, including alleged link with the smuggling of Yaba. The Awami League, however, fielded his wife Shaheen Akhter Chowdhury for the constituency.
The Department of Narcotics Control list in January 2014 confirmed that Bodi was the ‘person in control’ of a principal entry point of Yaba consignment at Teknaf.
Apart from naming 10 people, including his brother, several in-laws, uncle and nephew, the DNC list said that many other people worked under Bodi in the illegal drug trade
Bodi captured newspaper headlines several times for assaulting school teachers, forest and bank officers, engineers, a freedom fighter and a lawyer, just to name a few.
Bodi started politics in 1991. After failing to secure nomination from the BNP, he joined the Awami League the same year. In 2003, he was elected mayor of Teknaf Municipality from the AL.
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