Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) today (Oct 17) arrested Trinamool BNP Chairperson Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury.

He was apprehended from his Banani residence in Dhaka this afternoon.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner (DB-North) Rabiul Hossain Bhuiyan confirmed the matter.

Earlier, Shamsher Mobin confirmed that law enforcers were carrying out a drive at his house.

Before that, Shamsher, also former vice-chairman of BNP, and his wife were denied permission to travel abroad and were sent back from Dhaka airport yesterday, as the immigration police allegedly did not allow them to board their flight without clearance from "top-level" authorities.