A team of detectives arrested him, Rezaul Karim Mallik, additional commissioner of detective branch (DB) of DMP, told the Daily Star.

He was accused in many cases filed after August 5, when the Awami League government was toppled in the face of a student-led mass uprising.

Tawfiq-e-Elahi was appointed Hasina’s energy adviser in 2009, and served in the position till August 5. After the fall of Hasina’s government, many cases were filed against government high-ups, including the former prime minister, former ministers like Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and Anisul Huq, and top police officials.

Before Tawfiq-e-Elahi, two other high-profile arrests were of former law minister Anisul Huq and Hasina’s private industries and investment adviser Salman F Rahman on August 13.

Meanwhile, Jhenaidah police arrested Supreme Court lawyer and former additional attorney general Barrister Md Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury and Gazipur City Awami League advisory council member Riaz Mahmud when they were attempting to flee the country illegally, said a press release sent by Police Headquarters.

Mehedi and Riaz are accused in cases filed with Adabor Police Station in Dhaka and Bason Police Station in Gazipur respectively, it added.