UNB, Dhaka :
The year 2014 has passed witnessing much talked about kidnapping and enforced disappearance as well as sensational killings across the country.
On the other hand, the number of overall different types of crimes like killing, kidnapping, dacoity, burglaries and theft recorded a sharp rise in 2014 compared to 2013.
According to official crime statistics of Police Headquarters, some 380 people were killed, and nearly 78 others were kidnapped on an average every month till November, while the figure was 365 and 73 respectively in 2013.
A total of 4185 people were killed and 864 others were kidnapped in 11 months till
November 30 in 2014, while the figure was 4,393 and 879 respectively in 12 months of the previous year.
Sources at the police Headquarters said, a total of 603 incidents of dacoity, 2576 burglary and 7003 stealing incidents were recorded in different police stations in 11 months of 2014, while the figure was 613, 2762 and 7882 respectively in 12 months of 2013.
Though the police headquarters’ statistics did not carry any figure of enforced disappearances, it was much talked about the round the year and even various international human rights organizations expressed their concern over the incidents.
The most sensational incidents of the year occurred in Narayanganj district where Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and his three associates and driver were abducted from Fatullah area in Narayanganj city on April 27. Hours into their abduction, senior lawyer of the Narayanganj District Judge’s Court, Chandan Kumar Sarker, and his driver were abducted on their way to capital Dhaka.
Three days into their abduction, the bodies of six people, including that of Nazrul and Chandan, were recovered from the Shitalakhya and Dhaleshwari rivers on April 30. Besides, the body of Jahangir, the car driver of Nazrul Islam, was recovered from the Shitalakhya River on May 1.
The incident drew attention among the people across the country as several officers of the anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) as well as Nur Hossain, a Narayanganj city Awami League leader and also a councillor, and his associates were involved in the incident.
Even Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in its probe found the involvement of 21 of its officers under Rab-11 battalion, including Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowhdury’s son-in-law Lt Col Tareque, Major Arif Hossain and Lt Commander MM Rana in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case.
The elite force subsequently faced image problems and they even had to limit their activities for a while amid countrywide criticism. The three former officials of Rab-11 in Narayanganj-Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Major Arif Hossain and Navy’s Lt Commander MM Rana – were sent on forced retirement for their alleged involvement in the incident. They are now in jail.
Nur Hossain, who fled the country to escape arrest, was arrested by Paschimbanga police in Kalkata from an apartment on June 14.
Another much talked incident was abduction of Abu Bakar Siddique alias Siddiqur Rahman Litu, husband of Syeda Rizwana Hasan, the chief executive of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers’ Association (Bela), from Fatulla area on Dhaka-Narayanganj link road by unidentified miscreants on April 16.
Abduction of Abu Bakar Siddique created a wave of shock across the country and raised concern over the law and order situation by right groups and civil society members.
Journalists, civil society members and rights groups from home and abroad, including the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a regional human rights body, on April 17 expressed grave concern over the abduction of Abu Bakar Siddique.
Later, he was freed by the abductors at Mirpur of Dhaka city 35 hours after his abduction but neither the abductors could be traced nor the motive behind his abduction could be deduced.
In the wake of spate of abductions and secret killings, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on May 3 formed a 40-member anti-kidnapping squad to resist kidnapping bids, arrest kidnappers and rescue victims in the capital. The squad already rescued a number of kidnapped victims as well as arrested the kidnappers from different areas in the capital.
Unidentified miscreants slaughtered programme presenter of ‘Kafela’, a popular programme of the private TV Channel i Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqui in the Dhaka city’s East Razabazar area on August 27 night.
Police said a group of 6-7 miscreants stormed into the house of Faruqui, around 8:30pm and took the house inmates hostage. But the brutal killing of Maulana Faruqui, also presidium member of Islami Front and internal affairs secretary of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, remained a mystery.
The year 2014 has passed witnessing much talked about kidnapping and enforced disappearance as well as sensational killings across the country.
On the other hand, the number of overall different types of crimes like killing, kidnapping, dacoity, burglaries and theft recorded a sharp rise in 2014 compared to 2013.
According to official crime statistics of Police Headquarters, some 380 people were killed, and nearly 78 others were kidnapped on an average every month till November, while the figure was 365 and 73 respectively in 2013.
A total of 4185 people were killed and 864 others were kidnapped in 11 months till
November 30 in 2014, while the figure was 4,393 and 879 respectively in 12 months of the previous year.
Sources at the police Headquarters said, a total of 603 incidents of dacoity, 2576 burglary and 7003 stealing incidents were recorded in different police stations in 11 months of 2014, while the figure was 613, 2762 and 7882 respectively in 12 months of 2013.
Though the police headquarters’ statistics did not carry any figure of enforced disappearances, it was much talked about the round the year and even various international human rights organizations expressed their concern over the incidents.
The most sensational incidents of the year occurred in Narayanganj district where Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and his three associates and driver were abducted from Fatullah area in Narayanganj city on April 27. Hours into their abduction, senior lawyer of the Narayanganj District Judge’s Court, Chandan Kumar Sarker, and his driver were abducted on their way to capital Dhaka.
Three days into their abduction, the bodies of six people, including that of Nazrul and Chandan, were recovered from the Shitalakhya and Dhaleshwari rivers on April 30. Besides, the body of Jahangir, the car driver of Nazrul Islam, was recovered from the Shitalakhya River on May 1.
The incident drew attention among the people across the country as several officers of the anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) as well as Nur Hossain, a Narayanganj city Awami League leader and also a councillor, and his associates were involved in the incident.
Even Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in its probe found the involvement of 21 of its officers under Rab-11 battalion, including Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowhdury’s son-in-law Lt Col Tareque, Major Arif Hossain and Lt Commander MM Rana in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case.
The elite force subsequently faced image problems and they even had to limit their activities for a while amid countrywide criticism. The three former officials of Rab-11 in Narayanganj-Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Major Arif Hossain and Navy’s Lt Commander MM Rana – were sent on forced retirement for their alleged involvement in the incident. They are now in jail.
Nur Hossain, who fled the country to escape arrest, was arrested by Paschimbanga police in Kalkata from an apartment on June 14.
Another much talked incident was abduction of Abu Bakar Siddique alias Siddiqur Rahman Litu, husband of Syeda Rizwana Hasan, the chief executive of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers’ Association (Bela), from Fatulla area on Dhaka-Narayanganj link road by unidentified miscreants on April 16.
Abduction of Abu Bakar Siddique created a wave of shock across the country and raised concern over the law and order situation by right groups and civil society members.
Journalists, civil society members and rights groups from home and abroad, including the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a regional human rights body, on April 17 expressed grave concern over the abduction of Abu Bakar Siddique.
Later, he was freed by the abductors at Mirpur of Dhaka city 35 hours after his abduction but neither the abductors could be traced nor the motive behind his abduction could be deduced.
In the wake of spate of abductions and secret killings, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on May 3 formed a 40-member anti-kidnapping squad to resist kidnapping bids, arrest kidnappers and rescue victims in the capital. The squad already rescued a number of kidnapped victims as well as arrested the kidnappers from different areas in the capital.
Unidentified miscreants slaughtered programme presenter of ‘Kafela’, a popular programme of the private TV Channel i Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqui in the Dhaka city’s East Razabazar area on August 27 night.
Police said a group of 6-7 miscreants stormed into the house of Faruqui, around 8:30pm and took the house inmates hostage. But the brutal killing of Maulana Faruqui, also presidium member of Islami Front and internal affairs secretary of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, remained a mystery.
