The public administration ministry issued an order on Tuesday withdrawing the deputy director of ‘Identification System for Enhancing Access to Services’ (IDEA) project.
He has been attached to the ministry for further posting.
On Aug 19, officials of the NID and voter list office allegedly assaulted private TV station Channel 24 correspondent GM Mustafizul Alam and cameraperson Ripu Ahmed when they were gathering news at the office.
Bari had reportedly threatened in presence of a number of EC employees that he would make the journalists’ condition ‘like that of Probir Sikdar’.
Journalist Sikdar lost a leg in an attack after writing about the controversial war-time role of business tycoon Moosa Bin Shamsher, related to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s cousin through marriage.