Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested former commerce minister Tipu Munshi from the capital's Gulshan area early Thursday.
According to legal and media wing of the elite force, Tipu Munshi was arrested from a house of Gulshan-1 around 1:10am.
"He has been arrested in a case filed over the death of a jewellery worker Muslim Uddin Milon during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement".
Dilruba Akter, wife of victim Muslim Uddin Milon, filed the case with the court of Rangpur Metropolitan Magistrate Raju Ahmed Babu on August 27.
The murder case was filed against 17 people, including former Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury.
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