Preparations taken to keep law-order under control: Home Minister
NTV Online
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said law enforcement agencies have taken all the necessary preparations to deal with any kind of chaos and anarchy over Thursday’s verdict in Khaleda Zia’s graft case.
‘It’s very natural that the court will pronounce verdict after trial. We have no information about the verdict. Everything depends on court. We’ll carry out our duty as per the court order,’ said Asaduzzman while talking to reporters at the Secretariat, reports the UNB.
The court will fix whether the BNP chairperson will be convicted or acquitted. If she is punished, she will be kept in jail according to jail code. The authorities concerned have already taken preparations, he said.
The law enforcement agencies have been kept ready to handle any situation as ensuring security for people is their duty, the minister said.
The four main criminals behind the attack on police on January 30 from the motorcade of Khaleda Zia have been identified and arrested, he said.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir earlier claimed that the attackers were intruder. But the arrested four attackers are the leaders of an associate and student wing of BNP, he said adding that police arrested them after identifying them through examining video footage.
Disclosing the identities of the arrestees, he said the four arrestees were identified as Mamun Khan, son of Masum Billah Nalchiti upazila in Jhalakati and publication and research secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Ruhul Amin, son of Abdul Kader of Hajiganj in Chandpur, general secretary of 98 No ward BNP, Harunur Rashid, son of Abdul Malek and organasing secretary of 26 No ward Jubo Dal in Dhaka and Ishtiaque Ahmed Nasir, vice-president of central Chhatra Dal, the minister said.
He said law enforcers did not arrest BNP joint secretary general Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel. He might have gone into hiding. ‘It might be new technique of BNP.’
A special court in Dhaka is set to deliver verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman and four others on Thursday.