Anti-discrimination student movement
– Interpol’s operation to bring Sheikh Hasina and others back home
– About 2,500 cases across the country
– More than 6,000 arrested in October
– CID and PBI investigating important cases
After the downfall of the autocratic Awami government in a mass coup, some ministers, MPs and rank-and-file leaders were arrested, but party president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, along with top leaders of her political party, are still absconding. About two and a half thousand cases including murder and attempted murder have been registered in the incident of shooting and attack on innocent students and people across the country from July 1 to August 5. In all those cases, police, RAB and army have arrested more than 6,000 accused in the last October. Among them, 6000 were arrested by police and 200 by RAB. Questions have been raised in the public mind that even though some ministers, MPs and Awami League leaders and activists have been arrested, Sheikh Hasina and her family members, the main planners of the genocide case, Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud and dozens of other ministers and state ministers are still out of reach. It is alleged that many ministers and MPs fled across the border to neighboring countries after August 5. However, the National Central Bureau of Bangladesh (NCB) has recently started working to bring them back.
Police Headquarters AIG (Media) Inamul Haque Sagar told Naya Diganta that the court has issued arrest warrants against those who fled abroad. In the meantime, the police headquarters has received the report sent from the crime tribunal. There are certain rules and regulations for bringing accused through Interpol. The police headquarters has started the process of bringing back those against whom red alert has been issued.
In response to the question whether the political mafia who have not yet been arrested are in the country or abroad, he said that after August 5, the members of the law and order forces were in a state of demoralization for some time. At that time some may run away. Currently, the police force has turned around. Now they continue to work extensively. Accused of genocide or attempted murder cases are being arrested in anti-discrimination student movement every day. Former ministers and MPs are not exempted from this arrest. No one involved in genocide will be spared.
Last Sunday, the interim government’s legal advisor Professor Asif Nazrul said that no matter which country the fugitive fascist gang is in, they will be caught and brought to justice through Interpol. The court has ordered the arrest of the fugitives including Sheikh Hasina last month and to appear before the tribunal by November 18.
Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Special Superintendent of Police Md. Azad Rahman told Naya Diganta that the CID has received investigations into 47 cases of genocide. He said, we have divided the investigation on the cases. CID will also issue the charge sheet after the investigation of the cases is over.
Several officials of the police headquarters said that there were about 2,500 cases of genocide and attempted murder. Several lakhs have been accused in these cases. Among them, about 10,000 accused including former ministers, bureaucrats and Awami League activists and police have been arrested so far.
PBI Superintendent of Police (Media) Abu Yusuf told Naya Digant that PBI has been given the responsibility to investigate 40 cases of that time (anti-discrimination movement) filed in different police stations of Dhaka city. Apart from this, some other such cases filed in different parts of the country outside Dhaka metropolis have come to PBI. PBI has initiated the investigation process of the cases with utmost professionalism.
The sources also said that the former commerce minister Tipu Munshi, accused in the murder case of gold shop worker Muslim Uddin Milan, Shirhan Sharif Tamal, son of the former land minister, was arrested from Ishwardi in Pabna, former parliament member Mazharul Islam Sujan was arrested from Nikunj in the capital, APS of former naval minister Shahjahan Khan Md. Jahangir Jamaddar was arrested from Moghbazar. is done