Dhaka, March 7 -- Police have detained two people, including a former Dhaka University student, for publicly playing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's historic Mar 7 speech at Chankharpul intersection in Old Dhaka.

The arrests took place near Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 3:30pm, with authorities seizing the loudspeaker used to broadcast the address.

One of the detainees, Asif Ahmed, a physics student from the 2018-19 DU session, was reportedly the first to be apprehended.

A local shopkeeper said he noticed the two men playing the speech when opening his shop around 3pm and saw them taken away by police.

Earlier in the day, four people had been detained at Dhanmondi 32 while attempting to pay tribute to the historic speech....