Police arrested Vidisha Ershad, the second wife of late president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, in Dhaka’s Gulshan area on Tuesday, August 25. She was detained at about 8:30pm from Erabika Restaurant in Gulshan-2 after an arrest warrant had been issued against her, according to Gulshan police station Officer-in-Charge Md Daud Hossain.

Police said a financial fraud case was filed against Vidisha Ershad at Gulshan police station. A court sentenced her to two years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Tk10,000 in that case.

An arrest warrant was subsequently issued against her, police said. After the warrant was issued, she went into hiding before police later located and arrested her.