Shawdesh desk:

Police have arrested a youth in connection with the murder of a leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Sylhet’s Amberkhana area on Sunday.

The arrested is Md Kuti, 24, son of late Nur Miah of Sylhet’s Barobazar Gwaipara area, said Azbahar Ali Sheikh, deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (North) on Wednesday.

However, police did not give details from where Kuti was arrested.

Earlier, AFM Kamal, former health affairs secretary of Sylhet district unit of BNP, was stabbed to death in Barobazar area of Sylhet on Sunday night.

On Tuesday night, a case was filed with Jalalabad police station against 10 named and four to five unnamed people following a complaint lodged by the victim’s brother Moinul Haque.

Following the death, BNP leaders and activists staged demonstrations on Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital premises on Sunday night.

At that time, several motorcycles were burnt and a car was vandalised in Rikabibazar area where a clash broke out between some BCL and BNP activists.

Besides, pictures of Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and prime minister Sheikh Hasina were torn during the procession.

Later, police reached the spot and dispersed the protesters.

Besides, four people were arrested in connection with the vandalism under section 54, said Mohammad Ali Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Sylhet Kotwali police station.