Dhaka - Bangladesh police said on Monday that they had interrogated an Islamist politician over last month's mutiny at a military camp that left 56 officers dead.

Abdur Razzak, a senior official in the country's main Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, was summoned over the mutiny and questioned, police officer Nesarul Arif said without giving further details.

Razzak is the first politician to be quizzed about the mutiny in which troops slaughtered their commanding officers and dumped their bodies in shallow graves and sewers.

He later told reporters that the interrogation was to "tarnish his image and harass him politically".

A government minister early this month said investigators believed militants associated with the banned Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh Islamist group were involved in the revolt. - AFP