Home minister tells JS
Staff correspondent
Six hundred and eighty persons died in the custody of law enforcement agencies after 2002, the home minister, Shahara Khatun, told the parliament on Wednesday.
They died when the lawmen launched drives to either arrest criminals or recover illegal arms, she said, adding many of them died of heart attack and many committed suicide.
The minister said the government had conducted separate investigations of the incidents by magistrates, in accordance with the Police Regulations of Bengal, to establish whether the deaths were ‘killing.’
People have legal right to go to court to seek justice if they become aggrieved by any of the deaths. She said the government had plans to bring the patrons of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen to justice to contain religious extremism.
The government also expedited efforts of the Financial Intelligence Unit to contain funding for religious extremists through non-governmental organisations.
The minister said the government was trying to collect information on 14, out of the 15, fugitives sentenced to death penalty in the Mujib murder case.
The 14 fugitives include SHMB Nur Chowdhury, Shariful Haq Dalim, Khandakar Abdur Rashid, M Aziz Pasha, Ahmed Shariful Hossain, M Kismat Hashem, Mosleh Uddin alias Muslem Uddin, Nazmul Hossain Ansar and Abdul Majed, she said.
Shahara said the government issued red notice against MA Rashed Chowdhury who applied for permanent citizenship in the United States.
Courtesy of NewAge
