Take cybercriminals to task: PM asks law enforcers

FE Team | Published: March 20, 2023 00:12:02

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the law-enforcement agencies to take proper action against cybercrimes, reports UNB.
"We'll have to be careful against cybercrimes and take action accordingly. I would like to tell all, including RAB and every intelligence agency, that they will have to play a proper role in this regard," she said.
The prime minister was addressing the 19th founding anniversary of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at the RAB Forces Headquarters at Kurmitola in Dhaka.
Noting that her government built the country as Digital Bangladesh, she said the cybercrimes increased alongside creation of huge scopes due to the digitization.
Hasina said they made the digital Bangladesh for the welfare of the people not for sufferings.
She said there are some anti-state forces. They see nothing, no matter how much good work Bangladesh does. There is another class of people who defame Bangladesh before the foreigners and they get financial or other benefits for it.
Talking about the sanction imposed on Rab (officials) by the USA, the premier asked the RAB members not to be upset hearing the words from others rather move with self-confidence.
"This is our country that was achieved through the sacrifice of blood. In this country, we know who does what job and we'll judge them. We'll have to work with this confidence," she said.
"We will have to identify those who tarnish the image of institutions of Bangladesh one after another by carrying out propaganda and defaming Bangladesh. We'll have to find out why they are doing it and their purpose," she added.
The PM said Bangladesh can judge who has done good or bad. "If anyone commits an offense, we must speak about it. Don't be upset hearing words from others. You'll have to move with the sense of self- esteem and self-confidence, which is the biggest matter. You will have to keep it in mind," she said.
About the activities of teenage gangs, PM Hasina said parents, teachers and public representatives alongside the law enforcement agencies have also the responsibility to work for eliminating the teenage gangs.
"The teenage gangs must be stopped," she said.
The premier also asked the RAB to give more focus on containing drug abuse to protect the youth from drug addiction.
"We're getting self-sufficient and developed financially. But the adverse impact of drugs is getting high at the same time. Many people are getting addicted to drugs," she said, adding that this social disease is spreading from the high-class to low-class people.