Police have arrested Mohammad Jahangir Alam, a superintendent of police serving as deputy commandant of the Range Reserve Force (RRF) in Chattogram, in connection with a sedition case.

“We have arrested him in a sedition case,” Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Hasan Md Shawkat Ali told Daily Waadaa on Sunday.

The arrest came days after Jahangir was placed under police surveillance over allegations of leaking sensitive internal information to leaders and activists of the deposed Awami League, whose activities remain banned.

On November 11, Chattogram Range police seized his official and personal mobile phones following allegations of unauthorised information sharing. The devices were subsequently sent to the Special Branch in Dhaka for forensic examination.

Earlier, Chattogram Range Deputy Inspector General Abdul Quddus Chowdhury told the media that a complaint had been received against Jahangir and that an investigation was underway.

Additional DIG (Operations) Safizul Islam was assigned to lead the investigation.

Police sources alleged that Jahangir maintained contact with Awami League figures and shared sensitive departmental information ahead of disgraced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s announced return to Bangladesh in December.

The allegations had not been established publicly.

Jahangir, a 28th-batch BCS police officer, joined the force in December 2010. He served as additional superintendent of police in Feni during the July-August 2024 uprising before being posted to the RRF in Chattogram.

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