Suspended Dewanganj municipality mayor Md Shah Newaz Shahanshah was arrested from a hotel in city’s Uttara area on Thursday morning.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) member arrested him from ‘Hotel De Meridian’ in Uttara 12 No Sector.
The elite force cordoned off the hotel from this morning to nab the mayor, said RAB legal and media wing’s assistant director ASP ANM Imran Khan.
Shah Newaz will be sent to Jamalpur, he added .
Earlier, Shah Newaz Shahanshah has been suspended on charge of slapping an education officer in Jamalpur district.
He physically assaulted Md Meher Ullah, an upazila secondary education office, on December 16 at a Victory Day programme.
Md Meher was conducting the programme at Dewanganj Government High School premises. He was calling the names of the officials inviting them to place wreaths in serial.
As the mayor was the eighth in serial he got angry and started abusing Meher verbally. When the officer protested the mayor allegedly slapped him.
Later, a case has been filed with Dewanganj Police Station against the mayor. Investigation has already been started over the incident.
Shah Newaz went into hiding after the incident.