Former military officer Ziaul Ahsan arrested

Former military officer Ziaul Ahsan has been arrested in a case filed with New Market police station. 

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) announced in a brief message on Friday that Ziaul was arrested late on Thursday night in the Khilkhet area based on secret information. 

On August 6, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate issued a statement saying Major General Ziaul Ahsan, director general of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC), had been relieved of his duties.

Ziaul Ahsan was commissioned into the Bangladesh Army in 1991. A trained commando and paratrooper, Ziaul served in the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for an extended period. He joined RAB as a deputy commander on March 5, 2009, and later that year, on August 27, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed as director of RAB’s intelligence wing. He served as additional director general of RAB from December 7, 2013 until he left the force.

While serving as additional director general of RAB, he was transferred to the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) as deputy director general. He was later attached to the National Security Intelligence (NSI) as director on April 28, 2016. 

In 2017, he became the director of the NTMC. On September 5, 2022, the Ministry of Public Administration issued an order appointing Major General Ziaul Ahsan as the director general of the agency.