Three coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement were taken to the custody of the Detective Branch (DB) of police on Friday afternoon.

Three coordinators— Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Majumder of the platform— were taken into the DB police custody.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)’s additional commissioner (DB chief) Mohammad Harun-ar-Rashid confirmed this to journalists on Friday (July 26) night.

The DB chief claimed that three coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement were taken to their custody for the sake of their security and interrogation.

Earlier, a group of plainclothesmen allegedly picked up three coordinators, students of Dhaka University, from the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in the city yesterday afternoon.