Staff Reporter :
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday urged parents to pursue their children to return home before sunset to prevent the recent trend of teenage gangs.
“Though our law enforcement agencies are active, guardians should take care of their children, and what they are doing,” he said at a discussion as the chief guest in the Police Staff College Convention Hall in the city on Saturday.
Bangladesh Retired Police Officers Welfare Association (BPROWA) organised the discussion on prevention of drug abuse, terrorism, child repression, eve teasing, child marriage and abuse of internet on cell phone with its President and former Inspector General of Police Abdur Rouf in the chair.
The minister said teenage gangs have emerged, adding, “Be careful of your children
and you will not allow them to stay outside residences after evening, and convince them to go to the reading table after returning home.”
“We noticed that children were out of house not only after evening, but also they stayed late night,” he said and requested guardians for taking care of their children and grandchildren what they were doing and not to join teenage gangs.
He said that information technology is assisting people, but recently people became addicted to cell phones due to facebook.
Kamal said mischief springs from social media, which is called ‘social cocaine terrorism’, adding, “We have to return from this situation.”
The minister said, “Cell phones are needed. But do not go to a place that is harmful to you.”
Regarding eve teasing, he said, “There is a law to control eve teasing and it has been controlled and police take action against eve teasers when they get news. But managing committee of schools would have to take responsibility.”
Former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique was keynote speaker in the discussion, while Additional Inspector General of Police Mohammad Mainur Rahman Chowdhury and Chief of Criminal Investigation Department Md Shafiqul Islam spoke on the occasion.
