Staff Reporter :A section of ruling party men are reportedly doing an ‘arrest business’ with the help of some unscrupulous personnel of law enforcing agencies. The ruling party activists are also working as informers of law enforcers to nab the mainly BNP-Jamaat men and the accused in different cases filed with various police stations across the country. They are taking money from the family members of the detained persons assuring of release from the custody. “The ruling party leaders and activists also supply some lists of selected people to the law enforcing agencies and create pressure to arrest them,” alleged some victim family members hiding their identities. A section of pro-government people almost collect huge amount of money from them by threatening of filing new cases, they claimed. “We generally fall in danger if we fail to fulfil their demand for money or facilities,” they said. They also claimed that police picked up people without showing any warrant documents. “Police detained the BNP-Jamaatmen after conducting drive in the houses, messes, offices and vehicles following their crime lists and ruling party men’ lists. They seized valuable documents, including laptops and mobile sets, and sometimes vandalized the furniture,” they further said. They alleged that law enforcers tortured the detained people in the custody in the name of inquiry and delayed in producing them in the court violating the rules of producing within 24 hours of arrest. “Police filed cases according to prescription of the ruling party men based on amount of money paid by the family members of detained persons,” they further said. Meanwhile, over 1,300 people were arrested in last three days as the police continued their ‘special drive’ across the country after the recent killings amid the tight security, Police Headquarter sources said. They said that 1,325 people were arrested from Friday night to Sunday night.In Chittagong, police arrested 481 people, including 24 leaders and activists of Jamaat-Shibir from different upazilas of the district. In Bogra, law enforcers arrested 123 people, including 20 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat. In Satkhira, police arrested 132 people, including 20 leaders and activists of Jamaat-Shibir.In Chapainawabganj, police in separate drives arrested 62 people, including 12 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat.In Faridpur, police in separate drives arrested 93 people, including 12 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat. In Noakhali, police in separate drives arrested 32 people, including 10 leaders and activists of Jamaat.In Sirajganj, police in separate drives arrested 19 people.In Laxmipur, 15 people were arrested in the district.In Rangpur, police in separate drives arrested 140 people, including 61 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat.In Feni, police arrested 54 people, including 23 Jamaat activists.In Mymensingh, police in separate drives arrested 34 people from different upazilas of the district.In Pirojpur, at least 32 people were arrested, including 23 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat.In Narail, police in separate drives arrested 56 people in the district.Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said in a discussion program at Diploma Engineers’ Institute in the capital on Sunday that law enforcers conducted drives based on the reports of detectives and arrested the people on charge of creating anarchy across the country. He said the regular drive will be continued to arrest the miscreants. ‘The special drive continues…We want to ensure safety of all people in the country,’ said Assistant Inspector General of Police (media and public relations) Nazrul Islam.He declined to provide the number of people arrested in the past three days but said, ‘more than one thousand people had been arrested across the country.’
