The Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has recommended that travel ban should be imposed on 22 members of law enforcement agencies for their alleged involvement in the incidents of enforced disappearance during the now ousted Awami League regime of the past 15 years.
A commission member told 抖阴精品 that they had given the recommendation to the government in November for the sake of investigation against these officials accused of involvement in enforced disappearances.
The 22 officers belong to the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, Rapid Action Battalion and police.
鈥榃e have to talk to the members of law enforcement agencies for the sake of investigation as the commission has primarily found their involvement in enforced disappearance cases,鈥� the commission member said.
He said that they could not disclose the date and identities of the law enforcement agencies members.聽
The commission also asked the government to alert the immigration department in this regard, he added.
When reached for comments on the development, another commission member Nabila Idris said, 鈥業 neither acknowledge nor deny the matter. We are not disclosing anything to the media for the sake of investigation. We will inform our updates through press conferences.鈥�
News has also spread that these 22 members of the law enforcement agencies have been sacked from their jobs.
Another commission member, Nur Khan Liton, said that the news that the officers鈥� got the sack was fake.
Bangladesh security forces have not sacked any of their officers and members on the basis of any recommendations of the Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in the country, said a press release issued by the interim government chief adviser鈥檚 press wing on Sunday evening, quoting the commission chairman, justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury, as saying.
Addressing the nation on November 17, interim government chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus said that although the Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances had received over 1,600 complaints till October, he expected the number to exceed over 3,500.
On November 5, the inquiry commission said that it had received complaints regarding enforced disappearance of over 1,600聽 victims, the incidents of which occurred during the immediate past 15-year rule of the now ousted Awami League.
The complaints came from the enforced disappearance victims and their families from September 15 to October 31.
The commission also found detention centres in eight locations in the compounds of law enforcement and security agency offices, including the joint interrogation cell, popularly known as Aynaghar, on the premises of the Directorate General Forces Intelligence headquarters in the capital, and its surrounding areas.
Nearly 200 victims of enforced disappearance incidents that took place between January 6, 2009 and August 5, 2024 remain still untraced.
Commission members said that most of the 1,400 victims were later framed in cases with allegations of possessing illegal arms and involvement in extremism.
The victims were also sent to jail, sentenced to various jail terms, given death sentence, or granted bail while many cases are still underway.
