Anti-smuggling raids at trains planned
Police will raid trains across the country seven days a month to check smuggling, especially drugs, on rail routes.
It was decided at a meeting of the national committee on prevention of smuggling with Home Minister Sahara Khatun in the chair.
Sahara said train raids have been carried out tentatively. As it helped reduce smuggling, police will conduct the anti-smuggling drives seven days every month.
State Minister for Home Shamsul Hoque Tuku said the raids will be more frequent because of the railway being one of the identified smuggling routes.
He said the government is trying to check the crime. But lack of logistics and poor road links to many bordering areas, including the remote parts of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) hamper the drives.
Tuku said the prime target of the drives is to keep the smugglers on the run.
He said Justice Habibur Rahman, who commented the country is now in the hands of swindlers, made the observation without comparing the present government with the past one.
''Noted economist Shah AMS Kibria and veteran Awami League leader Ahsanullah Master were killed during the tenure of the last government,'' added Tuku.
The meeting disclosed that law enforcers carried out 131,752 anti-smuggling raids across the country, seized drugs worth over Tk 1,896 crore and arrested 4,625 people between April and July this year.
Home secretary, inspector general of police (IGP), representatives of Department of Narcotics Control, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and railway police attended the meeting.
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