On bipartite distance-regular graphs with a strongly closed subgraph of diameter three (Q607010)

\textit{R. Hosoya} and \textit{H. Suzuki} [Eur. J. Comb. 28, No. 1, 61--74 (2007; Zbl 1105.05075)] obtained an upper bound on the second largest eigenvalue of a distance-regular \(G\) graph with a strongly closed regular subgraph \(Y\) of diameter 2. In this paper the authors provide the same type of result in the case when \(G\) is also bipartite and \(Y\) is of diameter 3.