Rapid Action Battalion have arrested former Lakshmipur-2 MP MA Awal from Bhairab, the main accused in a murder case of a man in the capital's Pallabi area.
Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Khairul Islam, director of the force's intelligence wing, confirmed the matter on Thursday.
On May 16, 34-year-old Shahinuddin was hacked to death in front of his six-year-old son Mashrafe at Road 32 of Pallabi section 12.
Aklima Begum, mother of the deceased, filed a murder case with Pallabi police station accusing 20 people, with Awal as the main suspect.
Shahinuddin was killed over the perpetrators’ attempts to forcibly occupy 20 acres of land in Pallabi’s Alinagar area, she claimed.
Awal is the chairman of the Islami Ganatantrik Party, a former secretary general of the Bangladesh Tarikat Federation and the managing director of Haveli Property Development Limited.
