DHAKA: Bangladesh police on Saturday arrested a magazine editor over an alleged plot to kill the prime minister’s son, officials said.

Three officers in civvies entered the Dhaka home of Shafik Rehman, 81, in the morning claiming to be from a private TV station and took him away, his wife said.

Police later announced that Mr Rehman, who was formerly a speech-writer for the opposition leader and arch-rival of the Bangladeshi prime minister, had been arrested.

Police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sorder initially said that Mr Rehman was arrested for sedition. Later, he said the charge was “conspiracy to commit crime”. Officers said they had found evidence linking the editor to a plot to murder Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

Mr Rehman edits a popular Bengali monthly magazine called Mouchake Dhil.

Published in Dawn, April 17th, 2016