Bangladesh
Ansar Giving arrest powers to Ansar is fake news: Home Minister
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, 26 October 2023: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the matter of giving the power of arrest to Ansar Bahini is misinformation or misinformation. He said this in response to the questions of journalists after the inter-ministerial meeting at the Secretariat on Wednesday, October 25, to ensure overall security on the occasion of Victory Day celebrations.
BNP is criticizing that the Ansar battalion members are being given powers to detain criminals, search bodies and seize cases. The police don't want it either.
Responding to the question whether Ansar forces are being given the power to arrest or not, the Home Minister said, "It is a misinformation, you have a wrong idea. You are asking the question out of a wrong idea. Ansar forces have never been given permission to arrest. Not even today and there is no power to give it by any law. We don't have it."
"All law enforcement agencies have to work within the ambit of our Criminal Procedure Code. That's the bottom line. The legislation they're coming up with is here at the final stage of scrutiny. It's gone to our parliamentary standing committee, the standing committee members will scrutinize it. If there are any words, sentences incarnate in such questions, then they will be corrected. There is no room to go beyond the existing law."
If any sentence is in conflict with the law, then they will clear it, the minister said, any force has to work in accordance with the existing criminal law. Let me make one thing clear, there is no room for misunderstanding here.
"I hear, it is being spread in many places and it has been published in different media that Ansar is taking police power. This is propaganda, all misinformation. No such incident has happened. We always say that our two forces are members of the security forces," said the interior minister.
