Md Joynal Abedin Khan :
The members of the different law enforcing agencies have almost successful in fighting against the terrorists and extremists after the recent series of attacks, mainly the Gulshan and Sholakia incidents.
The law enforcers have stepped up their all-out efforts to apprehend and bring to justice those who have declared war against the countrymen, intelligence sources said.
Meanwhile, the government has already finalized to form two anti-terrorism special tribunals to accelerate the judgment process and those will be set up in Dhaka and Chittagong, Law Ministry sources said.
They said at least 12 posts for the each tribunal were approved in a ‘Secretariat Committee’ meeting in the conference room of the Cabinet Division on August 9. The Law and Justice Division will publish a government order in this connection within a few days, they said.
Law and Justice Division Affairs Secretary Abu Saleh Sheikh Md Jahirul Haque told reporters, “The tribunals will be formed to make delivery of judgment of the cases in connection with terrorism under the Anti-Terror Act in a short time.”
He added that, district and session judges will lead the tribunals, the Secretary said.
Earlier, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has launched its Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit on February 16 this year and Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Monirul Islam has been made its chief.
The CTTC unit will have 600 members, including one DIG, one additional DIG, four deputy commissioners (DC), 10 additional DCs and 20 assistant commissioners.
The intelligence sources further said the militants and extremists are now changing their addresses to avoid the arrest by the law enforcers from the city to remote areas of the country.
The arrest of the terrorists and others miscreants is now a common phenomenon as the law enforcers have become more technical and skilled by taking different innovative steps, they added.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), AKM Shahidul Hoque, has told reporters at his office, “The security forces have almost succeeded to check militancy and their raids for apprehending those involved in terrorism and militancy.”
He said, the law enforcers must show zero tolerance against militancy so that all plots to carry out militant attacks in the country can be thwarted.
Meanwhile, Police Headquarters instructed its field-level officials to take all-out measures to dismantle militant networks and prevent them from getting fresh recruits, the Home Ministry sources said.
They said, the Superintendents of Police of all the districts were given a list of 4,000 suspected militants in their areas and asked to hunt them down.
On July 26, the law enforcers confirmed shot dead of at least 9 militants by an-hour drive ‘Operation Storm-26’ in the city’s Kallyanpur.
They also conducted a 13-minute commando drive called ‘Operation Thunder Bolt’ and rescued al least 13 people after 11-hours hostage in the Gulshan café where 20 people were killed.
Also the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 19,499 criminals since 2004. Of them, 1182 are terrorists and 617 JMB men.
Police have submitted final reports in 17 cases and charge sheets in 143 cases. In the charge sheets, 1,157 JMB leaders and activists have been made accused, according to an estimate of the Police Headquarters.
