Md Joynal Abedin Khan :
Around 550 top ranking militants, including the members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), have allegedly disappeared after being released getting bail from different courts.
Members of law enforcing agencies are in dark about the whereabouts of the bailed men due to lack of information and also for not getting cooperation from the prisons authorities.
Of the bailed militants, some members of the banned militant outfits -mainly JMB, were arrested later from abroad, mainly India, Malaysia and Singapore, according to the media reports.
Legal experts opined that the militants are coming out form the jail by getting bail because of weakness of surveillances.
Taking the chance of security loophole, top militant leaders are instructing their followers. As a result, with new sprit they are carrying out attack one after another across the country.
Law enforcers do not have any information about hideouts of over 550 bailed led-out militants, said intelligence sources quoting a senior police officer.
More than 1,800 militants are now in jails across the country. Of them 21 militants who being awarded with death sentence are now staying in jails for years without any execution because of delay in hearing on death reference, Jailed sources claimed.
At the National Committee on Militancy Resistance and Prevention meeting in September, members from the security and intelligence agencies said 440 people accused in 331 militancy related cases have fled the country last five years after getting bail.
According to an estimate of Headquarters of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the elite force arrested 1,097 militants till the month of September. Of them, on bail are 192 members of JMB and 72 of Huji, but the intelligence could not confirm the whereabouts of 91 militants.
A total of 2,856 operatives of different militant outfits have so far been arrested while the number of the fugitives is 660, detective sources said.
The members of law enforcing agencies continued their drives to arrest their estimated 5,000 members and followers of the militant organizations, said an earlier notice of Police Headquarters (PHQs).
A police official seeking anonymity mentioned what happened in Mymensingh in 2014 when militant Anwar Hossain Faruq – after securing bail along with some of his associates – ambushed a prison van and freed three notorious militants. Later Faruq was arrested on September 25, 2016 by Kolkata police in a drive at a JMB hideout from Bangaon in West Bengal.
Earlier, Law Minister Anisul Huq urged the judges to become more cautious and rigid in granting bail to the accused detained in connection with militancy-related cases.
“I appeal to the judges to become more rigid in granting bail to the accused in militancy-related cases considering responsibilities of the judiciary and the country’s law and order situation,” the minister said.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said, “Militancy is now under control. The government is on hard line against the militants. Special order has been issued to law enforcers to nab the fugitive militants.”
Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque told The New Nation that said that strength of militants has come down because of anti-militancy drives.
Separate organisations arrest the militants and so there is no coordinated database about the militants. Top fugitive militants are collecting sophisticated arms and ammunition from foreign militant groups to carry out fresh attacks in the country, he claimed.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stressed need for formation of a coordination cell in order to take necessary steps to stop bail of suspects in cases related to militancy.
The coordination cell will preserve the particulars including the names and addresses of all the militant suspects, the attorney general said.
Instructions have also been issued to the jail authorities about the militants,” the IGP said.
In a query, he said, “The information does not come to us in due time after the release of the militants from jail and thus they go out of surveillance.”
Police authority requested the government to arrange hearing on death reference as soon as possible, said AKM Shahidur Rahman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the PHQs.
Abdullah Al Mamun, Assistant Inspector General (Administration) of the Department of Prison, said “We just maintain the prisoners and carry out the court order when prisoners get bail. If a militant prisoner gets bail then we inform all the intelligence wings and security agencies about the bailed militant so that they have them under surveillance.”
Around 550 top ranking militants, including the members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), have allegedly disappeared after being released getting bail from different courts.
Members of law enforcing agencies are in dark about the whereabouts of the bailed men due to lack of information and also for not getting cooperation from the prisons authorities.
Of the bailed militants, some members of the banned militant outfits -mainly JMB, were arrested later from abroad, mainly India, Malaysia and Singapore, according to the media reports.
Legal experts opined that the militants are coming out form the jail by getting bail because of weakness of surveillances.
Taking the chance of security loophole, top militant leaders are instructing their followers. As a result, with new sprit they are carrying out attack one after another across the country.
Law enforcers do not have any information about hideouts of over 550 bailed led-out militants, said intelligence sources quoting a senior police officer.
More than 1,800 militants are now in jails across the country. Of them 21 militants who being awarded with death sentence are now staying in jails for years without any execution because of delay in hearing on death reference, Jailed sources claimed.
At the National Committee on Militancy Resistance and Prevention meeting in September, members from the security and intelligence agencies said 440 people accused in 331 militancy related cases have fled the country last five years after getting bail.
According to an estimate of Headquarters of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the elite force arrested 1,097 militants till the month of September. Of them, on bail are 192 members of JMB and 72 of Huji, but the intelligence could not confirm the whereabouts of 91 militants.
A total of 2,856 operatives of different militant outfits have so far been arrested while the number of the fugitives is 660, detective sources said.
The members of law enforcing agencies continued their drives to arrest their estimated 5,000 members and followers of the militant organizations, said an earlier notice of Police Headquarters (PHQs).
A police official seeking anonymity mentioned what happened in Mymensingh in 2014 when militant Anwar Hossain Faruq – after securing bail along with some of his associates – ambushed a prison van and freed three notorious militants. Later Faruq was arrested on September 25, 2016 by Kolkata police in a drive at a JMB hideout from Bangaon in West Bengal.
Earlier, Law Minister Anisul Huq urged the judges to become more cautious and rigid in granting bail to the accused detained in connection with militancy-related cases.
“I appeal to the judges to become more rigid in granting bail to the accused in militancy-related cases considering responsibilities of the judiciary and the country’s law and order situation,” the minister said.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said, “Militancy is now under control. The government is on hard line against the militants. Special order has been issued to law enforcers to nab the fugitive militants.”
Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque told The New Nation that said that strength of militants has come down because of anti-militancy drives.
Separate organisations arrest the militants and so there is no coordinated database about the militants. Top fugitive militants are collecting sophisticated arms and ammunition from foreign militant groups to carry out fresh attacks in the country, he claimed.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stressed need for formation of a coordination cell in order to take necessary steps to stop bail of suspects in cases related to militancy.
The coordination cell will preserve the particulars including the names and addresses of all the militant suspects, the attorney general said.
Instructions have also been issued to the jail authorities about the militants,” the IGP said.
In a query, he said, “The information does not come to us in due time after the release of the militants from jail and thus they go out of surveillance.”
Police authority requested the government to arrange hearing on death reference as soon as possible, said AKM Shahidur Rahman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the PHQs.
Abdullah Al Mamun, Assistant Inspector General (Administration) of the Department of Prison, said “We just maintain the prisoners and carry out the court order when prisoners get bail. If a militant prisoner gets bail then we inform all the intelligence wings and security agencies about the bailed militant so that they have them under surveillance.”
