Operation Clean Heart incidents being investigated: Minister
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir on Monday said each and every incident of killing and disappearance is being investigated and steps would be taken based on the probe reports, reports UNB .
"Investigation into each and every incident of disappearance and killing is going on and steps will be taken on the basis of the probe reports," he said after a meeting with senior RAB officials during his visit to its headquarters in the morning.
The Home Minister made the remarks in response to journalists' query about the progress of investigation into the disappearance of BNP leader M Ilias Ali.
Commenting on his disappearance, the new Home Minister said: "It's not clear whether he (Ilias) has been made disappeared or he himself disappeared…there had been too many incidents of disappearance and killing during their (BNP's) rule."
Ilias Ali, BNP organising secretary, went missing along with his driver on April 17 midnight. BNP blamed security agencies for his mysterious disappearance, an allegation denied by the government.
About extrajudicial killings, MK Alamgir said, "I don't support extrajudicial killings, if there is any that will be investigated. If any criminal, dacoit or militant is killed during his or her criminal acts that cannot be called extrajudicial killing."
He said there had been too many extrajudicial killings since the inception of the elite force RAB until 2008 but the trend has marked a fall after that. "RAB is now more careful than anytime before."
The Home Minister, however, asserted that it is the duty of the state to protect the public life and property and their human rights.
Asked about the probe into the journalist couple Sagar-Runi, MK Alamgir said the investigation into the tragic incident is going on as per the High Court directives and using modern technologies. He hoped that their real killers will be caught soon.
Maasranga TV news editor Sagar and ATN Bangla senior reporter Runi were killed in their rented flat at city's Rajabazar on February 11 this year.
Turning to Sunday's countrywide hartal enforced by 12 Islamic parties protesting the release of an anti-Islam movie produced in the USA, the Home Minister said, "The hartal was called showing respect, as they said, to the Hazrat (Prophet Muhammad, SM), but the proper respect has not been shown to him as three districts had been kept out of the purview of the hartal for political reasons."
This was Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir's first visit to the head office of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) since he has taken office as Home Minister on September 16.
IGP Hasan Mahmud Khandaker and DG Rab Mokhlesur Rahman were, among others, present on the occasion.
"Investigation into each and every incident of disappearance and killing is going on and steps will be taken on the basis of the probe reports," he said after a meeting with senior RAB officials during his visit to its headquarters in the morning.
The Home Minister made the remarks in response to journalists' query about the progress of investigation into the disappearance of BNP leader M Ilias Ali.
Commenting on his disappearance, the new Home Minister said: "It's not clear whether he (Ilias) has been made disappeared or he himself disappeared…there had been too many incidents of disappearance and killing during their (BNP's) rule."
Ilias Ali, BNP organising secretary, went missing along with his driver on April 17 midnight. BNP blamed security agencies for his mysterious disappearance, an allegation denied by the government.
About extrajudicial killings, MK Alamgir said, "I don't support extrajudicial killings, if there is any that will be investigated. If any criminal, dacoit or militant is killed during his or her criminal acts that cannot be called extrajudicial killing."
He said there had been too many extrajudicial killings since the inception of the elite force RAB until 2008 but the trend has marked a fall after that. "RAB is now more careful than anytime before."
The Home Minister, however, asserted that it is the duty of the state to protect the public life and property and their human rights.
Asked about the probe into the journalist couple Sagar-Runi, MK Alamgir said the investigation into the tragic incident is going on as per the High Court directives and using modern technologies. He hoped that their real killers will be caught soon.
Maasranga TV news editor Sagar and ATN Bangla senior reporter Runi were killed in their rented flat at city's Rajabazar on February 11 this year.
Turning to Sunday's countrywide hartal enforced by 12 Islamic parties protesting the release of an anti-Islam movie produced in the USA, the Home Minister said, "The hartal was called showing respect, as they said, to the Hazrat (Prophet Muhammad, SM), but the proper respect has not been shown to him as three districts had been kept out of the purview of the hartal for political reasons."
This was Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir's first visit to the head office of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) since he has taken office as Home Minister on September 16.
IGP Hasan Mahmud Khandaker and DG Rab Mokhlesur Rahman were, among others, present on the occasion.