Former commerce minister Tipu Munshi arrested

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested the former commerce minister Tipu Munshi from Gulshan area of Dhaka in a case filed over the killing of a worker in Rangpur.

Senior Assistant Director ASP ANM Imran Khan of RAB's Law and Media Wing confirmed the matter.

He said that Tipu Munshi was arrested at about 10:00am on Wednesday.

Earlier, goldsmith Muslim Uddin Milion, 38, was killed during the Student Movement Against Discrimination by police gunshots in Rangpur.

On Tuesday noon (August 27), Dilruba Akter, 32, wife of victim Muslim Uddin Milon, filed the case with the court of Rangpur Metropolitan Magistrate Raju Ahmed Babu.