Law and order have ‘taken turn for the worse sharply’ as organs of state are being used to gain political mileage, alleged BNP yesterday.
“Police are to be used for stopping crimes. Instead, they are used to repress the opposition,” said party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
Party’s 22 leaders and activists have been abducted in last three months alone, he claimed, without going into details about the abductions.
Earlier on Wednesday, environment lawyer Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband Abu Bakar Siddique was abducted in Narayanganj on the way back to Dhaka.
“We want to know from the government about the whereabouts of Rizwana’s husband. Why have police failed to trace him out in 24 hours,” said Fakhrul at a discussion at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.
BNP leader Ilyas Ali was abducted on April 17, 2012, but the government has yet to give any trace of him, he said.
Speaking to journalists, Ilyas’ wife Tahsina Rushdir Luna then said his husband is a victim of political vendetta. “Despite the prime minister’s assurance, law enforcers have failed to trace out my husband.”
Luna added that she was not updated by the law enforcers about the investigation into her husband’s abduction in last one and a half years.
BNP spokesperson Fakhrul said abduction is a crime against humanity as per the United Nations Charter and accordingly this government is charged with such a crime.
