Mohammad Jamil Khan

A week has passed since the government launched a joint drive to recover firearms, but law enforcers have yet to calculate the actual number of firearms licences issued during the 15-year tenure of the Awami League government.

At least 2,241 inmates, including 88 on death row, fled from prisons before and after the mass uprising but a large number of them are yet to be found.

Many well-off inmates carry out illegal activities inside prisons by bribing a section of jail staffers.

Police have been largely absent on the ground in the one month since the fall of the Hasina-led government amid a mass uprising, causing safety concerns for the public.

Despite repeated calls by the government to submit the looted firearms and bullets to nearby police stations, over 3 lakh bullets and 2,000 guns remain missing.

Beximco Group laundered at least $135 million by exporting goods through 18 companies without repatriation of the export value, said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday.

Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat, chairman of RACE Asset Management, has manipulated the stock prices of many companies for financial gain and caused losses of crores of taka to general shareholders, found a primary investigation of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Police have dropped charges of committing violence and cybercrimes countrywide against all the accused in around 650 cases, said a high official at the Police Headquarters.

In a major reshuffle in the police force yesterday, three top police officials have been sent into forced retirement and five mid-ranking officials, who had been forced to retire by the Awami League government, have been reinstated.

A total of 437 Ansar personnel have been named as suspects in four cases that also accuse 11,100 unidentified people over clashes between the members of the force and students outside the Secretariat in Dhaka on Sunday night.

Committee formed; Ansar members asked to join work

The government has revoked the diplomatic (red) passports of the members of now defunct parliament, including the former prime minister, as well as her advisers and other officials who held such passports

The government has decided to cancel all diplomatic (red) passports, including those allocated for the former ministers, members of parliament, and their family members.

Directives already given to immigration and passports department

The high-ranking police officials loyal to the previous Awami League regime, are now passing days amid fear of losing their jobs, lawsuits, arrests and public wrath.

That the former law minister Anisul Haque and Hasina’s private investment adviser Salman F Rahman had instigated armed goons to kill a 24-year-old stall employee in the New Market area, is ludicrous as it is laughable..While Salman is widely regarded as a mastermind for financial crimes, A

Law enforcers have increased countrywide surveillance ahead of August 15, as no anarchy or subversive activities will be tolerated in the name of holding programmes on that day, according to sources in the police.

Leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League and its associate bodies will take positions at their respective unit offices across the country from early morning today and remain vigilant against blocking of roads and highways.

The syndicate of PSC officials and employees that leaked the questions of cadre and non-cadre exams was involved in leaking questions of other  recruitment tests as well, investigators have found.

Some more current and former officials of the Public Service Commission are involved in leaking questions for government recruitment tests, police and intelligence officials said.