The police have decided not to arrest any government officials and employees without exact information and evidence in cases centring the student-led mass uprising and also decided that the names of the officials facing accusations would be dropped if their involvement was not proved in primary investigation.
The Police Headquarters asked additional inspector general of Police Bureau of Investigation to take necessary actions in this regard by September 22 and submit soft copy via email and hard copy as well, according to a notice issued on Tuesday signed by deputy inspector聽 general of police for confidential Md Kamrul Ahsan.
The notice said that many government officials were made accused in the cases filed by victim families and aggrieved people centring July-August mass uprising.
The notice was issued following the resolution of the first meeting of the advisory committee on law and order that also asked the PBI to forward the copy to the officers-in-charge of all police stations and operations control rooms.
PBI deputy inspector general Mustafa Kamal said that they had already sent the letter to all police stations, metropolitan offices and control rooms.
鈥楾here are some certain protocols to arrest serving government officials as we have to take permission from the government,鈥� he said, adding that although the notice was issued for government officials but it would be applicable for all accused.
He claimed that it was not a big issue.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police data showed that 211 cases were filed in Dhaka city from August 5 to September 9 mostly centring the student-led mass uprising.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a preliminary report released on August 16, said that nearly 650 people were killed during the protests between July 16 and August 11.
According to the UN body, nearly 400 deaths were reported from July 16 to August 4, while around 250 people were killed in a new wave of protests in August 5鈥�6.
Before the fall of Hasina regime, most of the killings took place by the police and other law enforcement agencies in indiscriminate firing.
On Thursday, the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Julhash Uddin freshly remanded suspended Dhaka district additional superintendent of police Abdullahil Kafi in police custody for five days in a case filed over the murder of Yamin in Savar.
Savar Model Police inspector Md Abdullah Biswas, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Kafi before the court with seven-day remand prayer.
Earlier on September 4, Kafi was put on eight-day remand in an abduction and extortion case filed with the Hazaribagh police.
On September 2, the DMP detective branch detained Abdullahil Kafi from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while he was trying to flee the country.
Rapid Action Battalion members on Friday arrested inspector Arafat Hossain for his involvement in burning bodies of students and common people in front of the Ashulia Police Station on August 5.
Many key police officials blamed for killings or giving orders for killings, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Habibur Rahman, former DMP detective branch chief Harun Or Rashid and former DMP joint commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarkar, have gone into hiding and named in murder cases.
Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun was sent to jail after eight-day remand.
