Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun on Wednesday said anyone involved in attempts to deteriorate the law and order situation in the country would be dealt with sternly.
He said the police is capable of preventing any such attempt, including by militants.
The IGP was speaking to journalists after attending a discussion meeting-cum- award distribution ceremony on the occasion of the 48th death anniversary of Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and National Mourning Day organized by Bangladesh Police at Rajarbag Police Lines Auditorium in the capital on Wednesday afternoon. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandker Gulam Faruk presided over the discussion programme.
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Probed further on the recent activities of the militants, the nation's top policeman said: "We have been able to neutralize the militants and take action against them whenever they have organized and tried to inform their existing forces...we get information whenever they try to organize in any place. Because of this, we have been able to conduct successful operations against them. We are able to prevent any kind of attempt by the militants. "
Replying to another question regarding alleged sabotage attempt after Delwar Hossain Sayedee's death, the IGP said that they were given permission for the janaza but they didn't do it. That led to an attempt at trying to deteriorate law and order in different parts of the country.
"Whenever there is an attempt at sabotage, any attempt to worsen the law and order situation, we will take action against it," the IGP said.
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Regarding the threat to a physician of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in connection with Sayedee's death, he said, Police has been trying to identify the threaters and will bring them under the law of the land.
Mahbubuddin Ahmed, Bir Bikram, who had been serving as Additional Superintendent of Police during the Liberation War of 1971, was the keynote speaker at the event.
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