DHAKA, Aug 7, 2025 (BSS) - The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) early today arrested a ward-level Jubo League leader for his alleged involvement in the shooting death of student Nadimul Haque Elem during the July anti-discrimination student movement.

The arrestee was identified as Sarwar Hossain Swapan, one of the main accused in the Elem murder case. Swapan is the president of Ward No. 43 Jubo League under the Dhaka South City unit.

A team of CID arrested Swapan during a raid at his rented house in Alif Lam Mim Complex in the Babubazar area of the capital around 1:48am today.

Special Superintendent of Police (Media), CID, Dhaka, Jasim Uddin Khan confirmed the arrest.

On July 19 last year, Nadimul Haque Elem, an active activist of the anti-discrimination movement and a former student of Sheikh Borhan Uddin College, was shot dead at Patla Khan Lane, adjacent to the intersection of Kabi Nazrul Government College in Old Dhaka.

On September 1 last year, the victim's mother, Ismat Ara, filed a murder case with Sutrapur Police Station, naming 89 individuals including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina under Sections 302/120(B)/109/34 of the Penal Code.

In the same incident, the coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, Md. Shamsul Alam Arefin, filed another case with Sutrapur Police Station under Sections 34/109/149/302 of the Penal Code on August 24, 2024.

The investigation into the incident is currently being conducted by the CID, Dhaka Metro (South) Division.