Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maqbul Ahmad has been shown arrested and remanded for three days in an arson case filed with Motijheel Police Station.

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maqbul Ahmad, its Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman and six other top leaders are placed on a ten-day remand for each in connection with two cases.

Detectives detained Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maqbul Ahmad and eight other leaders of the party in the capital's Uttara last night, said police.