Police consider themselves above the law, says NHRC chief

Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Mizanur Rahman says there has been a growing trend among the police personnel to flout law as many of them got away with transgressions.

Savar Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 13 Feb 2016, 06:06 PM
Updated : 13 Feb 2016, 06:06 PM

Talking to reporters at Dhaka’s Savar on Saturday, he said, “Some members of the police force have been excessively audacious. In some cases, they are going overboard. Police personnel are considering themselves above law.”

His remarks come amid several recent incidents of police highhandedness.

“Since the policemen found guilty of crimes often go unpunished, several of them are committing crimes tarnishing the image of the entire force,” he said.

A tea-seller died of burn wounds he received when policemen allegedly tried to extort money from him in Dhaka’s Shah Ali area on Feb 3.

Earlier, police assaulted a Bangladesh Bank official and a Dhaka South City Corporation inspector in the capital, triggering public outcry.

After attending an event of a private university at Savar, the NHRC chairman said the incidents of murder, forced disappearance, abduction and rape were on the rise in the country.

He lamented that even murderers of children were not ‘punished adequately.’