The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has suspended its executive committee member Shaikh Rabiul Alam Robi following his alleged involvement in the murder of Tanjeel Jahan Islam Tamim in the Rampura Mahanagar Project area in the capital.
Narcotics Control Department officer Mohammad Mamun who is the number 1 accused in the murder case, meanwhile, was withdrawn from his post of deputy director for Dhaka city south.
Confirming the matter, BNP central office sources said on Monday that a letter regarding the suspension has been sent to Rabiul.
The letter said that all the organisational posts of Rabiul would be suspended until the case was settled.
According to the letter, the decision was made as Rabiul鈥檚 reply to a 24-hour show-cause notice issued on October 11, was not satisfactory.
The show-cause notice, signed by BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, asked Rabiul to explain in writing to the party central office in 24 hours why disciplinary action would not be taken against him.
The police earlier revealed that they found Rabiul and Mamun鈥檚 involvement in the murder of Tamim.
Tamim, 32, succumbed to his injuries he sustained in a violent altercation in an under-construction building at Mahanagar Project with employees of the real estate developer, Pleasant Properties, and owners of other flats of the building on October 10.
Tamim鈥檚 father Sultan Mahmud, one of the land owners, alleged that the killing took place after an altercation over the distribution of flats in the nine-storey building, built on land owned by three individuals.
Sultan Ahmed filed a case against 16 people, including Rabiul and Mamun on October 11.
Narcotics Control Department in a notice on Monday said that Mohammad Mamun was withdrawn from his post of deputy director for Dhaka city south and attached to the directorate.
The deceased鈥檚 father, Sultan, said that each landowner was entitled to five flats, but Pleasant Properties, owned by Rabiul, had been delaying the transfer of his share despite handing over the flats to the two other owners.
Police, so far, have arrested five people in the murder case filed with the Hatirjheel police station.
