State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that the complaint on the death of BNP leader Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu is motivated.

The made the comment while talking with journalists after a meeting at DIG Dhaka range office in city on Sunday afternoon. 

Asaduzzaman Khan said that Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu’s family complained that he died due to negligence or torture which is not correct. 

He also said that this type of speech about death is motivated. The jail authority said that there was no negligence in Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu’s treatment. 

Earlier, Ex-lawmaker, Assistant Organizing Secretary of BNP and ex-president of Students legue, Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu, died on Sunday noon.

He suffered a cardiac arrest at Rajshahi Jail around 12.12pm, and he was immediately taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital but the duty doctors declared him dead.

Pintu was serving life-term for carnage at Pilkhana headquarters of paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles force.