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The parliamentary standing committee on the home ministry on Sunday expressed concern over the stamping of a pro-hartal picket in Dhaka by the police and questioned the role of Rapid Action Battalion in the death of a Juba Sanghati leader in Sylhet.
The committee warned law enforcers not to do excesses while on duty to maintain law and order.
The standing committee at a meeting also asked the home ministry to investigate the incidents and let the committee know about what had happened, meeting sources said.
A Jatiya Party lawmaker and member of the committee raised the issues of stamping of a picket by the police during the September 22 hartal enforced by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition and the death of Monwar Hossain Monir, general secretary of Sylhet district Juba Sanghati, the youth front of the Jatiya Party, early Saturday reportedly from torture by the RAB, sources said.
‘It could not be accepted that pickets or anyone would be beaten to death by the law enforcers,’ the committee chairman, Abdus Salam told reporters after the meeting, adding that they had discussed the incidents.
He said that the committee had earlier warned the law enforcers against doing excesses and overenthusiastic behaviour. ‘Now that such incidents have taken place, the committee wants explanations after investigations.’
Salam, however, said that those enforcing hartal had
no right to unleash anarchy and damage public property in the name of political programmes.
Sources said that the committee members had also accused law enforcement agencies of tarnishing the image of the government by such activities very often.
‘I asked the inspector general of police whether punitive action was taken against the police personnel responsible for stamping a picket and he said that an investigation was on,’ Jatiya Party lawmaker Mujibul Haque Chunnu told New Age, adding that the police was asked to submit a report on the incident to the committee after investigation.
He also said that the director general of RAB was asked about the death of Monir in Sylhet and he explained that Monir had died of cardiac arrest, which the committee did not accept.
The committee also asked for a detailed report from the RAB about the incident, said the JP lawmaker.
The police during hartal hours on September 22 stamped a picket in the city’s Motijheel area. The picture of the incident was published and broadcast by the media.
Sylhet unit Juba Sanghati leader Monir, also president of cultural organisation Mohana Sangskritik Sangstha, was arrested by RAB on September 19 and handed over to police. He died early Saturday in Sylhet Medical College Hospital.
His brother Altaf Hossain said that his brother had died from torture by the RAB.
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