The Inter Service Public Relations said on Sunday that a total of 626 people, including political leaders, judges, and police officers, took shelter in the cantonment, fearing for their lives after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5.
The people who took shelter in the cantonment include 24 politicians, five judges, 19 officials of civil administration, 28 police officers, 487 police members, 12 officials of different public universities, and 51 family members of sheltered individuals, including women聽 and children, according to an ISPR press release.
Among them, 615 had left the cantonment after the situation improved, while four people were handed over to law enforcement agencies based on charges or cases against them.
Seven people who took shelter, including three family members of sheltered individuals, are still staying in the cantonment, according to the ISPR press release.
The ISPR said that the army had sheltered the people to prevent extrajudicial activities, protect lives, and uphold the rule of law as their lives were at stake in the changing political scenario.
Though the Army did not name any individuals, Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Friday said it had arrested former Major General Ziaul Ahsan in a murder case after he was handed over to them by the army.
Zia, who is widely accused of perpetrating many enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings during the regime of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was arrested in a case filed with the New Market police station.
During his remand hearing in court, Zia told the court that a team of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence picked him up from home on the night of August 7 and kept him in a detention centre now known as Aynaghor for eight days until Thursday night.
Asked, police did not comment on whether any other individual was handed over to them or not by the Army.
