The Rapid Action Battalion arrested former commerce minister Tipu Munshi in Gulshan, Dhaka, on Wednesday night in a murder case filed in Rangpur.
RAB Legal and Media Wing Senior Assistant Director Senior ASP ANM Imran Khan said Tipu had been arrested in connection with the killing of goldsmith Muslim Uddin Milon, 38, shot dead during the recent student movement in Rangpur.
Dilruba Akter, Milon’s wife, filed the case on Tuesday afternoon at a Rangpur court against 17 individuals, including former speaker of parliament Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and Tipu Munshi.