Joynal Abedin Khan :The members of the law enforcing agencies, including Detective Branch (DB) of Police, are seriously monitoring the activities of the bloggers and free thinker online activists across the capital and other cities of the country.The bloggers will be punished if they make ities between the motives of killing Niladri Chatterjee alias Niloy and other bloggers. ‘We primarily think that minor militant outfits like Ansar Al-Islam and Ansar Al-Bangladesh were conducting the blogger killings’, he commented.Meanwhile, the Cabinet committee on law and order met at the Home Ministry to discuss the recent killings of bloggers and children. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu, who chaired the meeting, told reporters that 16 people were arrested so far in six cases of attacks on bloggers and online activists. On the other hand, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) has urged the bloggers not to write blogs that may hurt religious sentiments. AKM Shahidul Hoque’s call comes at a time when police are drawing harsh criticisms over their failure to deal with the cases of killings of four bloggers in six months this year.At a press briefing in the Police Headquarters on Sunday, he also suggested to notify police if anyone’s blog was found to be offensive to religions. “There will always be free thinkers. I have enough respect for them. But we need to remember that hurting religious sentiments is a crime according to our law. “Any offender of religious beliefs may get the highest punishment of 14 years (in jail). But killing someone for that offence is never acceptable,” the IGP said.He said if anyone is found for hurting religious feelings he would be brought to justice. The IGP put numbers on police’s success in tackling militancy, about 80 percent.He said 632 cases were lodged in connection with the incidents related to militant attacks in last few years. Chargesheets were submitted in 516 of them and 2,543 militants arrested.
