BNP for judicial probe into deaths in anti-drug drive

BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed today urged the government to form judicial probe commission to try those involved in the “extrajudicial killing” carried in the name of the anti-narcotic drive.

“The anti-narcotic drive is ill-conceived one. Immediately stop the drive being conducted to kill peopleand form a judicial probe commission headed by a retired Chief Justice to try the perpetrators of the killing,” he said while addressing a discussion at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka.

Perpetrators of each of the extrajudicial killing must be punished through the trial as per the report of the judicial probe commission, he said. “Who has given the government the right to give licence to the law enforcers to kill people without any trial?” he questioned.

Moudud said the government is unlawfully killing people as there is no rule of law and elected government in the country.

Observing that no one of the drug kingpins were arrested or killed in the drive, Moudud criticised the government for allowing ruling party MP Adur Rahman Bodi to go aboard amid the crackdown on drug peddlers.