A sub-inspector took a 71-year-old man to a police station in the capital allegedly at gunpoint because officers received an image on WhatsApp that showed the elderly man’s photo on a BNP poster for the party’s December 10 rally.

A BNP delegation led by the party's Vice Chairman Barkatullah Bulu is holding a meeting with Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun at the police headquarters to discuss the December 10 rally and the recent arrests of party men.

The BNP wants to hold the Dhaka rally in front of its Nayapaltan headquarters on December 10. But the government said the party must hold it at Suhrawardy Udyan, not Nayapaltan. Both the Awami League and the BNP are at loggerheads over the rally venue.