Mohammad Jamil Khan

The interim government is re-verifying the background of 100 individuals who passed the 41st Bangladesh Civil Service examinations and were recommended for police cadre jobs.

Most of the firearms and ammunition looted from police and other forces in the days before and after the fall of the Awami League government still remain unaccounted for, raising concerns that these have fallen into the wrong hands.

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) is preparing a list of members of the police and other forces who were involved in killings, genocide, arrests, torture, and crimes against humanity to suppress the mass uprising.  

They are still officials of the Bangladesh Police, but they have not joined their workplace since August 5, after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government in a mass uprising.

At least 1,474 cases have been filed nationwide in connection with the violence that occurred in July-August. These lawsuits were filed between August 6 and September 25 after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government amid a mass uprising.

A group of people attacked the home of Asma Begum in Nimertek area of Savar around 11:00am on October 3. They ransacked her home and beat up Asma, who is three months pregnant.

An overarching sense of frustration, apprehension, and opportunism prevails over the police force, rendering it virtually dysfunctional.

Police members sued for murder, attempted murder, and kidnapping during the quota reform protests in July-August will only be arrested if there is specific evidence against them.

Nasir Biswas, a 26-year-old mason, was walking close to the Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard in the capital’s Mohammadpur on the evening of September 20.

Rohingyas, on the way to Bangladesh from Maungdaw town, were allegedly bringing parts of the machines

A week has passed since the government launched a joint drive to recover firearms, but law enforcers have yet to calculate the actual number of firearms licences issued during the 15-year tenure of the Awami League government.

At least 2,241 inmates, including 88 on death row, fled from prisons before and after the mass uprising but a large number of them are yet to be found.

Many well-off inmates carry out illegal activities inside prisons by bribing a section of jail staffers.

Police have been largely absent on the ground in the one month since the fall of the Hasina-led government amid a mass uprising, causing safety concerns for the public.

Despite repeated calls by the government to submit the looted firearms and bullets to nearby police stations, over 3 lakh bullets and 2,000 guns remain missing.

Beximco Group laundered at least $135 million by exporting goods through 18 companies without repatriation of the export value, said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday.

Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat, chairman of RACE Asset Management, has manipulated the stock prices of many companies for financial gain and caused losses of crores of taka to general shareholders, found a primary investigation of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Police have dropped charges of committing violence and cybercrimes countrywide against all the accused in around 650 cases, said a high official at the Police Headquarters.

In a major reshuffle in the police force yesterday, three top police officials have been sent into forced retirement and five mid-ranking officials, who had been forced to retire by the Awami League government, have been reinstated.

A total of 437 Ansar personnel have been named as suspects in four cases that also accuse 11,100 unidentified people over clashes between the members of the force and students outside the Secretariat in Dhaka on Sunday night.