Police arrested a man in Dhaka's Rupnagar yesterday in a case filed for throwing acid at his former wife and mother-in-law in their Polo Ground house in Chittagong city early Monday.
The arrest was made after Jahangir was called over the cellphone by one of his brothers-in-law, who was detained earlier, said Md Jasimuddin, officer-in-charge of Chittagong Kotwali Police Station.
CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver Jahangir was being brought to Chittagong while the report was filed in the last evening, the OC said. Sheli Akhter and her mother Hosne Ara came under the acid attack while they were asleep on that day. Police seized Jahangir's vehicle near the residence of Sheli who filed the case with the police station.
The two are being treated at the burn unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital.