No innocent person should be harassed: PM

Desk Report: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the law enforcers particularly the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to ensure peace by maintaining law and order to further accelerate the country’s development.

“The country’s economic development will speed up if we can maintain a peaceful situation,” she said while addressing the 15th founding anniversary of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at its headquarters at Kurmitola in the capital on Thursday morning.

Describing peace and stability as key to success in accelerating the country’s development, she said such a situation will boost foreign investment to further augment the pace of advancement.

The premier asked the law enforcers to perform their duties with professionalism, sincerity, dedication and honesty being imbued with patriotism.

She instructed them to maintain law and order strictly so that the people of the country can move and sleep safely.

She, however, asked the law enforcers to be compassionate and capture real criminals instead of innocent people and said, “The people who commit crime must be arrested whatever powerful they might be.”

But, keep in mind that no innocent person should be harassed, she added.

The premier directed the law enforcers to continue the drives against militancy and drug abuse to capture the culprits alongside taking various programmes to create social awareness as none can be involved in the menaces in the days to come.

She extended heartfelt greetings to the law enforcers particularly the RAB for containing militancy which had been able to earn global praise and requested all to build a social movement against abuse of drugs likewise against the militancy.

In this context, she said regional committees alongside with central one involving all particularly scholars of various religious organizations such as mosques and madrasas to raise a social awareness against the adverse impact of militancy which had brought a good result. _BSS

risingbd/Dhaka/March 28, 2019/AKA