Staff Correspondent, Dhaka
The Security Service Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered necessary steps to impose a travel ban on 20 former and current government officials accused of involvement in cases of enforced disappearances.
Security Service Division Deputy Secretary Md Kamruzzaman issued a letter on Sunday to the director general of the Department of Immigration and Passports and the additional inspector general of police of the Special Branch, according to media reports.
As part of the process, the 20 people’s passports are to be suspended.
The directive follows a request from the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances.
The letter mentions that the second phase of investigations identified 20 additional government officials allegedly linked to cases of enforced disappearances, requesting the suspension of their passports and measures to prevent their departure from the country to aid the probe.
The 20 former and current government officials include retired additional IGP and former director general of RAB Mokhlesur Rahman, former IGPs and ex-DGs of RAB Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun and Benazir Ahmed, former additional DGs of RAB Ziaul Ahsan (currently under arrest) and Col Tofayel Mostafa Sarwar, former RAB-7 commander Lt Col Mefta Uddin Ahmed, former director of RAB’s intelligence branch Lt Col Md Mahbub Alam, former RAB-4 commander Additional DIG Khandaker Lutful Kabir, and former RAB-10 commander Shahabuddin Khan.
The remaining officials under the travel ban are former RAB-11 commander Lt Col Md Kamrul Hasan, former RAB-1 commander Lt Col Sarwar Bin Kashem, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner (Head of CTTC) and former SB chief Monirul Islam, former DIG Md Asaduzzaman, former DMP additional commissioner (DB) Haurnor Rashid, former DMP additional commissioner Sheikh Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Former DB deputy commissioner Moshiur Rahman, former CTTC additional deputy commissioner Md Touhidul Islam, former DGFI director of Brig Gen (Retd) Abu Taher Mohammad Ibrahim, Maj Gen (Retd) Mohammad Touhid-ul-Islam, and Brig Gen Md Mahbubur Rahman Siddiq.
