Former lawmaker MA Awal was taken to Keraniganj central jail on Wednesday in a case filed over the murder of Shahinuddin in Dhaka’s Pallabi area.
He was taken to the jail at 7:30pm and will be kept in a 14-day quarantine there, Jailer Mahbubur Islam confirmed.
MA Awal is a former member of parliament from the Lakshmipur-1 constituency.
He was arrested by RAB from Bhairab area in Kishoreganj on Thursday along with others accused in this case.
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RAB claimed the former MP to be the mastermind of the killing.
On May 16, the accused called Shahinuddin on his phone and asked him to come to Mirpur 12 under the pretext of resolving a land dispute.
When Shahinuddin reached the area around 4pm that day, some assailants attacked him, hacking him to death with sharp weapons in front of his seven-year-old son.
His mother Aklima Begum filed the murder case with Pallabi police station on May 17 against several people, including Awal, Sumon and Rocky.