Innocent Hossen has been in Rangpur jail for the last 22 days without an allegation against him.

Hoque has been absconding since October 17, 1997 after the Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge awarded him an eight-month imprisonment and slapped a fine of Tk 1000.

The verdict followed allegations by his wife that Hoque married another woman without her permission. Earlier, a first class magistrate's court also handed down a similar verdict.

Hoque married his second wife on June 24, 1987 when Hossen was only eight years old.

The complainant, Fatema Begum, Hoque's first wife, in an affidavit at a magistrate's court in Rangpur however has admitted that the arrestee is not her husband. The magistrate has asked police to report by June 5 why they have arrested Hossen.

Police sources said they mistook Anwar Hossen, son of Mohammed Ali of the village Araji Tampat under Kotwali thana, for Anwarul Hoque, son of Mohammed Hossen of the village Bagchi Dewan Tuli under the same police station because the names and addresses were almost identical.