1975-08-24
By Reuters
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 23 (Reuters) — The Bangladesh radio announced the arrest of former Prime Minister Mansoor All and Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam under the country's new martial‐law regulations.
Four other members of the former government headed by Sheik Mujibur Rahman were also arrested, some on charges of amassing property disproportionate to their income according to the broadcast, monitored in Calcutta. [The Associated Press reported in a censored dispatch from Dacca that 26 people had been arrested.]
The martial‐law rules announced following the overthrow of Sheik Mujib provide for the death sentence or life imprisonment for a range of economic and political offenses.
The radio said that others Minister of Industries; Abdus Ahmed, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh; A. H. M. Kamaruzzaman,” the former Minister of Industries; Abdusj Samad Azad, the first Foreign Minister, and Korban Ali former Information Minister.