“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.”
President’s condition unchanged
The health condition of President Zillur Rahman, who has been undergoing treatment at a Singapore hospital, has remained unchanged, says a press note issued by Bangabhaban yesterday.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged people to pray at all mosques and other religious institutions for the early recovery of the president.
Zillur Rahman was flown to Singapore Sunday night and admitted to Mount Elizabeth Hospital yesterday morning.
All necessary medical examinations and treatment of the president are going on under intensive observation of specialised physicians of the hospital.
Zillur’s son Nazmul Hassan Papan, a ruling Awami League lawmaker, who is attending to the president, told BSS by phone that Zillur was suffering from severe lung infection and that doctors began removing water from his lungs as his condition stabilized a little.
Before being taken to Singapore, Zillur was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka Saturday night with respiratory problems.
Bangabhaban official sources said the 83-year-old president was on respiratory support while boarding the aircraft.
Zillur had been suffering from fever since Saturday morning and taken to CMH after he had developed breathing problems.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged people to pray at all mosques and other religious institutions for the early recovery of the president.
Zillur Rahman was flown to Singapore Sunday night and admitted to Mount Elizabeth Hospital yesterday morning.
All necessary medical examinations and treatment of the president are going on under intensive observation of specialised physicians of the hospital.
Zillur’s son Nazmul Hassan Papan, a ruling Awami League lawmaker, who is attending to the president, told BSS by phone that Zillur was suffering from severe lung infection and that doctors began removing water from his lungs as his condition stabilized a little.
Before being taken to Singapore, Zillur was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka Saturday night with respiratory problems.
Bangabhaban official sources said the 83-year-old president was on respiratory support while boarding the aircraft.
Zillur had been suffering from fever since Saturday morning and taken to CMH after he had developed breathing problems.
18-Party Violence and Police Reaction
1) Journalists try to save their motorcycles after activists of the BNP-Jamaat-led 18 party alliance set those on fire near BNP’s central office in the capital’s Naya Paltan yesterday.
2) Members of the Detective Branch of police trying to break into BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s room in the BNP office during a raid yesterday after cocktails were exploded nearby. 3) A burning car of Channel i near the BNP office following an arson attack by the 18-party activists. 4) BNP Dhaka city unit Convener Sadek Hossain Khoka being taken away by police after being arrested from the office.
2) Members of the Detective Branch of police trying to break into BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s room in the BNP office during a raid yesterday after cocktails were exploded nearby. 3) A burning car of Channel i near the BNP office following an arson attack by the 18-party activists. 4) BNP Dhaka city unit Convener Sadek Hossain Khoka being taken away by police after being arrested from the office.
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