Dhaka, July 29 – Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) director General Benazir Ahmed on Sunday expressed his strong opinion that the anti-drug drive will continue though there are some quarters who are criticizing it. Shaking his hands in the air, he said the hands of the drug Mughal will be vanquished and it is the demand of the state.
“Those who are criticizing the anti-drug drive are the critics of the anti-militancy drive,” he said.
He said this as the special guest at a workshop on anti-drug ‘Action Plan’ organized in a capital city Dhaka organised by Department of Narcotics Control (DNC). Md Jamal Uddin Ahmed, the director-general of DNC presided the program.
“When something started, a group of people also started screaming. What do they really want to get? During the anti-militant campaign, I saw them sitting on television night after night and screaming. The wounds of the colonization till cover them,” said the director.
There will be nothing they get. In this war of anti-drug drive, we will not return without winning. It is not a battle, it a War for all, also mentioned the DG.
Farid Ahmed Chowdhury Secretary, (security service division) said that by two weeks the final draft of Narcotics Control Act, 2018, will be tabled in the cabinet for approval.
The punitive measures under the draft act will be decided on the basis of the amount and types of drugs carried and sold by the peddlers and dealers. “Capital punishment is being recommended only for the dealers sitting at the helm of the drug cartel, also said the secretary.
Benazir Ahmed recommended the formation of a special anti-drug court in 64 districts of the country with retired judges.
He also mentioned special prison for drug prisoners. They may be jailed on an island or isolated part of the Bay of Bengal.
Benazir Ahmed also recommended a special 3-member special court can be made in every district by the appointment of retired judges because the number of our magistrates is only 1,800. There will be a lot of resilience for new recruitment for special courts. I would like them to be judged by a special court. The accused can be acquitted but after the trial.
There are 7 camps in the Cox’s Bazar, he said, this has caused hampered the shipment of Yaba from Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka. But on the other side in Sylhet route, it has started.
Thanking the journalists for cooperating with the anti-drug drive, he said, but in the last 10 years, I do not see any drug reports in Cox’s Bazar area. Many people said they are feared about godfather or godmother. But now the situation has changed to give the report about them. – Staff Reporter
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