Lalmonirhat, April 9 -- Detectives have arrested former MP and President of Lalmonirhat district Awami Mohila League - Advocate Safura Begum Rumi - in the capital.

A team of the district Detective Branch (DB) of police, with assistance from the local police station, picked her up from Mohammadpur area in Dhaka on Wednesday night, according to a press release issued on Thursday morning by Lalmonirhat Superintendent of Police Asaduzzaman.

Safura Begum Rumi, wife of Abdullah of Taluk Khutamara area in Lalmonirhat town, is a former MP from a reserved women's seat (Lalmonirhat-Kurigram) and also a member of the central Awami League.

The press release said she is accused in five cases, including charges of sabotage and murder. Police claimed...