Law enforcement agencies certainly cannot avoid their responsibility in the escape of two convicted militants from police custody, Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of Rab’s legal and media wing, said on Monday.
The Rab commander said this while responding to questions from reporters at the Rab media centre in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar.
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It would have been possible for the law enforcers to take action or prevent the escape if they had received information from the intelligence agencies earlier. “That’s why law enforcers cannot avoid responsibility.”
Asked whether the two militants have already left the country, Moin said that he cannot say anything about that right now.
“We are examining the CCTV footage of their movement at various places,” he added.
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On November 20, two members of the banned militant outfit Ansar-al Islam – Abu Siddique Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim – who were sentenced to death in publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan's murder case, were whisked away from police custody at Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate court arena.
They also tried to snatch two other accused, Arafat and Sabur, but failed. Police filed a case against 20 people in this connection.