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Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed
The government is enforcing an uncompromising zero-tolerance policy across the nation against all forms of mob violence, vigilante justice, and public lynchings, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed announced today on the floor of the legislature, cautioning that extrajudicial actions strike at the very foundation of the constitution.
The policy pronouncement came on Thursday (August 27) during the ongoing session of the 13th National Parliament at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital, in response to a tabled inquiry raised by reserved-seat Member of Parliament Selina Sultana regarding deteriorating public order and incidents of collective vigilantism.
Reaffirming the state's fundamental monopoly on justice and legal proceedings, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed underscored that no individual, group, or congregation possesses the legal mandate to pass judgment or execute punitive actions on fellow citizens:
"The absolute authority to adjudicate crimes and enforce punitive measures rests solely with the state. Subjecting any person to extrajudicial punishment, public assault, or physical lynching outside the due process of established law is completely illegal and constitutes a grave violation of fundamental human rights."
Detailing the administration’s tactical framework, the Home Minister explained that the current democratic government has devised and deployed a multi-pronged action plan aimed at systematically eliminating the culture of taking the law into one's own hands, restoring institutional rule of law, and safeguarding citizen security. Law enforcement agencies, including metropolitan police units, district administrations, and specialized intelligence wings, are executing coordinated field operations across vulnerable territories.
As part of this comprehensive crackdown, security personnel have intensified cordon-and-search operations alongside stepped-up physical monitoring in neighborhoods, intersections, and suburbs identified as prone to collective unrest. In addition to high-visibility street patrols and rapid-deployment mobile units, covert intelligence gathering has been significantly amplified to deter unlawful assemblies and reassure the public. High-resolution closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance networks are being expanded across major commercial centers and sensitive transit hubs to digitally track agitators and identify lawbreakers in real time.
Addressing preventative community measures, the minister noted that administration officials and police leadership are maintaining continuous, proactive communication channels with community elders, imams, priests, and clerics across mosques, temples, and churches to defuse communal tensions and preempt ideological radicalism. Concurrently, field officers are leveraging grassroots bit-policing architecture by directly integrating local ward representatives and respected citizens into localized peace-keeping networks to preemptively resolve local disputes before they escalate into violence.
Turning to the digital sphere, dedicated cyber-crime monitoring cells are operating around the clock across prominent social media platforms, principally Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), to trace, flag, and neutralize online rumors, fabricated narratives, and inflammatory propaganda designed to incite street violence. The minister reaffirmed that maintaining law and order remains the government's foremost priority, emphasizing that every incident of vigilantism will be treated as a direct challenge to the state's legal framework and met with decisive legal retaliation.
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