A former influential Bangladeshi army general, key to changing the government in 2007, has been arrested by police. The man was one of the main figures in the interim government that ruled the country until the 2008 elections.

Police said their men in plain clothes arrested retired Lieutenant General Masud Uddin Chowdhury, one of the key figures instrumental in changing the government in 2007 and installing an interim one that ran the country for the subsequent two years until the 2008 elections.