Security forces in Bangladesh have arrested 1,308 persons from across the country, which was started to curb the nationwide incidents of crowd attacks and barbarity as part of the ongoing “Operation Devil Hunt”. The operation was launched by the interim government led by Nobel Lauriat Muhammad Yums on Saturday at Gazipur in Gazipur in Gazipur during a brutality at the house of a former minister of Awami League.
Joint campaign associated with army, police and special units arrested at least 274 people from metropolitan areas, and 1,034 from other parts of the country, Bangladeshi Prakashan, Business Standard cited Inamal Haq Sagar, Assistant Inspector Inspector (Media and PR) Did. Said as police headquarters.
According to a report by the Daily Star, the people arrested under the special operation were mostly members of the Awami League and his associate organizations.
In Gazipur, 81 leaders and activists and its affiliated organizations of Awami League were arrested, while in Kamilla, three people associated with the party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina were detained by the police. Joint forces allegedly detained seven Awami League leaders, including the president of a union council, during separate drives in different areas of Nokhali’s Hatiya Upjila.
About Operation Devil Hunt?
Yunus -led interim government on Saturday launched a special drive called ‘Operation Devil Hunt’, aimed at curbing disturbance and ensuring public safety across the country. A government statement stated that after Operation Gangs began, “People associated with the fallen autocratic regime attacked a group of students, injuring them seriously”.
Speaking about the special drive, Home Advisor MD Jahangir Alam Chaudhary said it will continue until all “devils” are brought in contact with justice and “not a single devil should be released”.
The Home Advisor insisted that the operation will continue to target those who try to destabilize the country, disobey the law as anarchists. He said on Saturday, “Many of those who attacked students and public in Gazipur have been brought to book. The rest will soon come in contact with justice.”
Later on Sunday, Nasimul Ghani, Senior Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, said that the operation will continue for a long time as necessary. “Our goal is to neutralize the pockets from where efforts are being made to destabilize the country,” he said.
As part of the operation, the government has set up a command center at the Police Headquarters under the Ministry of Home Affairs, from where all the forces are monitoring the law and order situation of the country.
Comprehensive security operations come after days of disturbance.
On Wednesday, for six months since Hasina escaped, his palace in Dhaka was attacked by a mob, protesters using excavation to break their family -related buildings. In response to the reports, it was triggered in response to the protests that 77-year-old Hasina-Hasina-has postponed a arrest warrant to face test crimes against humanity-Posticides would appear on a Facebook aired from exile in India.
The destroyed buildings included the late father of Hasina, the first President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the former house. The interim government blamed Hasina for violence.
On Friday, interim leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus also requested to calm down. Yunus said in a statement, “Honoring the rule of law, we are working together to separate the new Bangladesh, who are working under the fascist rule from the old Bangladesh.”
“For those citizens who blow and overthrow the Hasina regime … It is mandatory to prove yourself and their friends from all over the world that our commitment to our principles -respecting another and human rights and acting under law Doing – is unwavering.
