The Inter Services Public Relation Directorate on Thursday shared the names and identities of 626 people who took shelter in the cantonments across the country following the August 5, 2024 political changeover.
The people who took shelter in cantonments include 24 politicians, five judges, 19 civil administration officials, 515 police personnel, 12 public university officials and others, and 51 members of the families of some of them, said a press release issued by the ISPR in the evening.
The politicians on the list include former Jatiya Sangsad speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury and her family, former shipping minister Shahjahan Khan, former deputy speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku, former state minister for posts, telecommunications and information technology Zunayed Ahmed Palak, former lawmaker for Jashore-3 constituency Kazi Nabil Ahmed, ex-lawmaker for Bogura-4 constituency AKM Rezaul Karim Tansen, former lawmaker for Habiganj-4 constituency Sayedul Haque Sumon, former lawmaker聽for Dinajpur-8 constituency Iqbalur Rahim and former Khulna city mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque.
The judges who took shelter in cantonments include former chief justice Obaidul Hasan and former Appellate Division judge, Justice Enayetur Rahim.
The police officials on the list include former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman, former Special Branch chief Monirul Islam, former Rapid Action Battalion director general Harunur Rashid, former DMP Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit chief Md Asaduzzaman, ex-Chattogram Range DIG Noor-E-Alam Mina and former additional deputy inspector general of police Proloy Kumar Joarder, said ISPR.
The list also included Sylhet Agricultural University鈥檚 former vice-chancellor Md Jamal Uddin Bhuiyan and Khulna University鈥檚 former vice-chancellor Mahmud Hasan.
A total of five people were handed over to the members of the law enforcement agencies and most of the people left the cantonment within one or two days, said the ISPR.
The ISPR said that they had sent a list of 193 individuals to the home ministry except 432 police personnel and one National Security Intelligence official on August 18 and issued a press release, which was a resolved matter.
It said that they, considering the humanitarian ground, had given shelter for the individuals to protect their lives from extrajudicial killings.
The ISPR said that it was said that a vested quarter with ill motives was trying to undermine the Bangladesh Army鈥檚 image and create distance between the army and the people by spreading misleading information.
The ISPR claimed that a vested quarter鈥檚 activities had deteriorated the country鈥檚 overall law and order situation after the fall of the previous regime as government offices, police stations, political leaders and their supports and their houses were vandalised and set on fire.
It said that the number of mob justice, thefts and robberies had increased during that time.
The ISPR also urged all to refrain from disseminating misleading information.
