“Police went to BNP office to discharge legal duties,” the minister said at a TV talk show yesterday evening. “They identified criminals and then arrested the criminals from the main opposition party office.”
Over a hundred BNP leaders and activists, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, were arrested in a three-hour raid, telecast live by different private television channels.
The uncalled for raid came in a little over an hour after the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance at a rally called for a dawn-to-dusk nationwide hartal today.
The alliance organised the rally in front of the party headquarters protesting the “mass killing by police and ruling party activists”.
MK Alamgir, appearing in the talk-show of private television channel 71 TV, said the persons arrested from the BNP office would be produced before a court for trial under Anti-Terrorism Act-2009 and other relevant laws.
Replying to a question, he said the police took the action following Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance and this ordinance was enacted during the tenure of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman.
The ordinance gives magistracy power to the DMP commissioner and the commissioner’s associates, he noted.
Secondly, the minister said, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), police have the jurisdiction to take any step anytime and anywhere to stop any criminal from committing crimes.
MK Alamgir also said it cannot be accepted that BNP will store cocktails at its office to attack people and police will sit idle even after knowing it. “If we do not make arrests, violence would be intensified and anarchy would spread further.”
Regarding today’s shutdown, he said “They [opposition] have no moral or legal rights to call such hartal.”
Monday, 11 March 2013
They are criminals
Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir has defended yesterday’s police action at the BNP headquarters in the capital, saying law enforcers arrested “criminals” from the opposition party office.
“Police went to BNP office to discharge legal duties,” the minister said at a TV talk show yesterday evening. “They identified criminals and then arrested the criminals from the main opposition party office.”
Over a hundred BNP leaders and activists, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, were arrested in a three-hour raid, telecast live by different private television channels.
The uncalled for raid came in a little over an hour after the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance at a rally called for a dawn-to-dusk nationwide hartal today.
The alliance organised the rally in front of the party headquarters protesting the “mass killing by police and ruling party activists”.
MK Alamgir, appearing in the talk-show of private television channel 71 TV, said the persons arrested from the BNP office would be produced before a court for trial under Anti-Terrorism Act-2009 and other relevant laws.
Replying to a question, he said the police took the action following Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance and this ordinance was enacted during the tenure of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman.
The ordinance gives magistracy power to the DMP commissioner and the commissioner’s associates, he noted.
Secondly, the minister said, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), police have the jurisdiction to take any step anytime and anywhere to stop any criminal from committing crimes.
MK Alamgir also said it cannot be accepted that BNP will store cocktails at its office to attack people and police will sit idle even after knowing it. “If we do not make arrests, violence would be intensified and anarchy would spread further.”
Regarding today’s shutdown, he said “They [opposition] have no moral or legal rights to call such hartal.”
“Police went to BNP office to discharge legal duties,” the minister said at a TV talk show yesterday evening. “They identified criminals and then arrested the criminals from the main opposition party office.”
Over a hundred BNP leaders and activists, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, were arrested in a three-hour raid, telecast live by different private television channels.
The uncalled for raid came in a little over an hour after the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance at a rally called for a dawn-to-dusk nationwide hartal today.
The alliance organised the rally in front of the party headquarters protesting the “mass killing by police and ruling party activists”.
MK Alamgir, appearing in the talk-show of private television channel 71 TV, said the persons arrested from the BNP office would be produced before a court for trial under Anti-Terrorism Act-2009 and other relevant laws.
Replying to a question, he said the police took the action following Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance and this ordinance was enacted during the tenure of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman.
The ordinance gives magistracy power to the DMP commissioner and the commissioner’s associates, he noted.
Secondly, the minister said, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), police have the jurisdiction to take any step anytime and anywhere to stop any criminal from committing crimes.
MK Alamgir also said it cannot be accepted that BNP will store cocktails at its office to attack people and police will sit idle even after knowing it. “If we do not make arrests, violence would be intensified and anarchy would spread further.”
Regarding today’s shutdown, he said “They [opposition] have no moral or legal rights to call such hartal.”
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