Staff Correspondent

The cabinet committee on law and order at a meeting on Thursday expressed its concerns about rising incidents of murders in the city, officials said.

The meeting, presided over by the home affairs adviser, MA Matin, again cautioned the law enforcing agencies against custodial deaths. Matin told the lawmen that death in custody would in no way be acceptable, said a ministry official who attended the meeting at the home affairs ministry.

The committee also cautioned the law enforcement agencies previous meetings against custodial death. But a crime suspect was killed in ‘encounter’ with the lawmen in Narayanganj a couple of days ago. The meeting also discussed the US state department report on the state of human rights in Bangladesh.

The committee reviewed the progress in the investigation into the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally, and the killing of Awami League leader Shah AMS Kibria, also a former finance minister, and Professor Aftab Ahmed. Matin asked the authorities concerned at the meeting to examine the US state department report on Bangladesh.

The police told the meeting it had sought cooperation of Interpol in carrying out investigation into the Kibria murder. It also said the investigation into the killing of Aftab murder had taken a new turn after India had handed over to Bangladesh wanted criminal Sanjidul Islam Imon, now being interrogated by the Criminal Investigation Department.

The department is interrogating Imon in connection with a number of criminal cases, including murder and extortion, filed against him. The meeting was told that at least 17 people had so far been killed in March in Dhaka.

The law enforcement agencies were asked to take all-out steps to identify the people involved in the killing and arrest them. The home secretary, inspector general of police, inspector general (prisons), and the directors general of the Rapid Action Battalion and the Bangladesh Rifles also attended.

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