Mistakes can take place in major drives: Quader

Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said ‘one or two mistakes’ might take place in a big operation like the ongoing anti-drug drive.
The minister made the comment when Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’ victim Akramul Haque’s wife Ayesha Begum at a press conference on Thursday provided four unverified audio clips of phone call conversations among her, her daughter and Akramul ‘before and during’ his killing at the night of May 26.
The clips suggested that Akramul was called by a ‘Major’ with whom he was going to Hnila and was shot dead in cold blood.
Home minister Asaduzzman Khan also on the day claimed the family of Akramul, three-time elected councillor of Teknaf Municipality and a local leader of ruling Awami League, had neither lodged any compliant nor submitted the reported audio-clip to any of law enforcement agencies.
Both the ministers, however, said that the government would investigate the killing of Akramul. 
Talking to reporters at his Dhanmondi house in the capital, the home minister said, ‘A magistrate will investigate the killing and actions would be taken against people responsible based on the magistrate’s report.’
Asaduzzman told reporters in the city that if anyone of law enforcement agencies did anything unlawful thing being lured, or being self-motivated, they would face music. ‘We are clearly saying none is above the law.’
Road transport and bridges minister, talking to reporters after inaugurating a new bus service for women at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre in the capital, said, ‘Akram was our party activist…. If he was not involved with drug peddling, those involved in killing him will be punished.’ 
Quader also claimed that the anti-drug drive already got support of people of all strata and a vested quarter was opposing it only for their political ground and interests.
A privately owned company Rangs has introduced the bus service for ladies which will run from Mirpur-12 to Motijheel via Farmgate, Shahbagh and Gulistan.
The unverified audio clips of the conversations between family and Akramul raised question about the law enforcing agencies’ claim of ‘gunfights’ in which suspected drug peddlers were killed, said rights groups.
At a the press conference on Thursday, Akramul’s wife Ayesha Begum claimed that her husband was a victim of ‘cold blooded murder’ and not a ‘gunfight’ and demanded a judicial probe into her husband’s killing in a ‘gunfight’, branding him a trader of contraband Yaba tablets.
Rapid Action Battalion in a message on early May 27 claimed that ‘top drug peddler’ Akramul was killed in a ‘gunfight’ between RAB and suspected drug peddlers at Noakhalipara under Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar.

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