The Workers Party of Bangladesh president and former minister of the Awami League-led government Rashed Khan Menon on Thursday was arrested in a murder case filed with the New Market police station on August 21.聽
Menon was arrested in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area, said the Dhaka Metropolitan Police media cell.
The WP central committee member Mostafa Alamgir Ratan said that he was picked up by the Detective Branch of Police.
鈥楬e himself informed the matter to the party leaders and activists,鈥� he added.
On August 18, Rashed Khan Menon was accused in the case filed against Sheikh Hasina and 33 others on charges of 鈥榤ass-killing鈥� at the rally of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh at Shapla Chattar area in Motijheel on May 5, 2013.
He was also an accused of a case filed in the International Crimes Tribunal.聽
Against the backdrop, the Workers Party on Thursday expressed concern over arresting it president from his Gulshan residence in the afternoon.
In a statement, the party politburo said that a veteran politician, Menon, had taken part in the War of Independence and the mass movement of 1969, among others.
Demanding proper justice, the party hoped that the court would grant Menon bail.
Menon, a freedom fighter and former minister of Awami League-led government, was an ally to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
He served as vice-president of the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union in 1963-64.
He was president of the then East Pakistan Students鈥� Union in 1964-67.
He was the founding general secretary of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, which was founded in 1972.
