Action will be taken against unlawful acts of RAB: Sahara
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Home Minister Sahara Khatun has said action would be taken if the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) engaged in any 'unjust and unlawful' act inside the house of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Leader Mirza Abbas during hartal hours Sunday.
"I did not see it but RAB and police went to Mirza Abbas's residence to detain him in a case filed against him the previous day," she said.
She was briefing journalists Tuesday at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after visiting burn patients who were injured during pre-hartal violence Saturday night, reports UNB.
RAB allegedly ransacked valuables and tortured Abbas's relatives, after entering his residence during the hartal hours on June 27.
Referring to several vehicles in the capital being set on fire allegedly by pro-BNP activists Saturday night, several hours before enforcing the main opposition BNP's declared countrywide dawn to dusk hartal, the Home Minister said, "We can find out who was involved in setting those vehicles on fire. Stern action would be taken against the perpetrators".
Earlier the Home Minister visited the policemen, who were injured during the hartal hours, at Rajarbagh Police Line Tuesday noon.
"I did not see it but RAB and police went to Mirza Abbas's residence to detain him in a case filed against him the previous day," she said.
She was briefing journalists Tuesday at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after visiting burn patients who were injured during pre-hartal violence Saturday night, reports UNB.
RAB allegedly ransacked valuables and tortured Abbas's relatives, after entering his residence during the hartal hours on June 27.
Referring to several vehicles in the capital being set on fire allegedly by pro-BNP activists Saturday night, several hours before enforcing the main opposition BNP's declared countrywide dawn to dusk hartal, the Home Minister said, "We can find out who was involved in setting those vehicles on fire. Stern action would be taken against the perpetrators".
Earlier the Home Minister visited the policemen, who were injured during the hartal hours, at Rajarbagh Police Line Tuesday noon.