Monitoring failure leads to secret killings

High-ups of the law-enforcing agencies have failed to monitor activities of their forces, some of them are allegedly being involved with major crimes like abduction, silent killing and collecting bribe money from people.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB),Detective Branch (DB) of police, and police forces have some political posting at the lower tier who are allegedly involved in these crimes, informed sources said.

20 bodies of secret killing victims recovered in 10 days; 500 BNP, Jamaat men under surveillance

Intelligence agencies have listed around 500 top-ranking local influential leaders of BNP and Jamaat across the country and have kept them under strict intelligence surveillance, police said.

They include presidents and general secretaries of ward, union, upazila and district BNP, Jamaat, Jubo Dal, Chhatra Dal and Chhatra Shibir.

A high official of police,preferring anonymity, told The New Nation yesterday that the Government had ordered the law enforcing agencies to be alert about the said leaders.