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Cases against AL men to be reviewed

Govt forms body to examine the 'politically motivated' cases

Staff Correspondent
A high-powered committee will review all cases filed against Awami League (AL) leaders and activists with 'political motive' during the tenures of the immediate past caretaker government and the BNP-led coalition government.
The five-member committee headed by Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed was formed yesterday to scrutinise such cases. It will submit its recommendations soon, said home ministry sources.
Committee members include LG RD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, Home Minister Sahara Khatun, State Minister for Home Affairs Tanjim Ahmed Sohel Taj and State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam.
"The committee will examine the nature of the cases and identify those which had been filed with political motive," Sohel Taj told The Daily Star.
AL President Sheikh Hasina has been accused in 16 cases. Of those, 11 were filed during the tenure of BNP-led coalition government and the rest during the tenure of the immediate past caretaker government.
Many top leaders of AL and its front organisations have been implicated in about 50,000 cases, according to the committee members.
The BNP-led coalition government between 2001 and 2006 had withdrawn around 70,000 cases filed against their party leaders and activists during the tenure of AL government between 1996 and 2001.
Sources said the home and the law ministries have been asked to prepare a list of the 'false' cases filed during the tenure of the four-party coalition government.
The home ministry has already directed the police department to prepare the list immediately, the sources added.
"/\fter reviewing the cases, the 'false' ones wall be withdrawn following recommendations of the law ministry," said a senior official at the home ministry.
After a meeting on law and order Sohel Taj told journalists at the ministry that they would also review the 70,000 cases withdrawn during the tenure of the BNP-led coalition government.
Commenting on maintaining law and order in the country, the state minister said. "We have directed the law enforcement agencies to take stern actions against whoever breaks the laws."
The meeting also decided to tighten security measures in the capital's Baitul Mukarram Mosque, that recently.:win nessed a series of untoward incidents.
High officials of the army, police and Rab were present at the meeting with Home Minister Sahara Khatun in the chair.