Tazreen Victims
HC asks police to submit DNA reports by Sept 17
Taka 7 lakh was paid as compensation to each successor of 99 identified workers who died in Tazreen Fashions fire, said Bangladesh Garments and Manufacturers and Exporters Association in the compliance report it submitted to the High Court on Sunday.
BGMEA president Atiqul Islam submitted the report
Jatiya Party lawmaker Mujibul Haque, also a committee member, asked the police not to send plain-clothes teams on operation.
‘The police filed cases against unnamed people in their efforts to extort money from innocent people. Anyone declining to give money to the police face charges,’ the lawmaker said.
‘It must be stopped,’ he said and other lawmakers attending the meeting supported Mujibul.
‘Plainclothes teams of police stations are also involved in extortion. Such plainclothes teams should be dismantled,’ he said.
He said that the recent incident of extortion by a team of plainclothesmen at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar was a glaring example of money being extorted from ordinary people.
The police arrested some members of plainclothesmen of the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar station when they were extorting money from a rickshaw-puller.
The authorities will review the allegations and suggestions and take action against the people responsible, Hassan Mahmood said.
-With New Age input
