Mob violence goes unabated in the country with no sign of let-up in immediate future as in latest incidents at least one man was lynched to death and three others beaten up on suspicion of being muggers in Dhaka, Gazipur and Sylhet on Tuesday night.
Rights activists expressed their concern over growing crimes, including mob violence, putting down the situation to the breakdown in the rule of law.
They stressed the need for urgent government action to improve law and order.
Calling the current law and order situation an emergency one, rights activist and former executive director of Ain o Salish Kendra Faruq Faisel said that the interim government seemed completely unconcerned about it.
鈥楴o strict action came from the government,鈥� he said, adding that people had expected much more than this from it.
Earlier on Wednesday, home affairs adviser retired lieutenant general Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury in a programme called on the public not to take law into their own hands.
In Gazipur鈥檚 Tongi, a youth was beaten to death on suspicion of being a mugger at Mashimpur area on Tuesday night.
The police are yet to identify the deceased.
Tongi East police officer-in-charge Faridul Islam told 抖阴精品 that the incident occurred near Tongi Station Road at about 7:30pm when a mob caught the youth and fatally beat him while he was allegedly trying to snatch a phone.
The police on information reached the spot and took him in an unconscious state to hospital where doctors pronounced him brought dead, he said
Rights body Ain o Salish Kendra in its monthly updates revealed that at least 112 people were beaten to death in the past six months from August 2024 to January 2025 with at least 16 recorded in the first month of this year.
The ASK yearly report revealed that 128 people were beaten to death in 2024, 51 in 2023, 36 in 2022, 28 in 2021, and 35 in 2020.
Activists observe that weak criminal justice system, impunity for law enforcement agencies and a lack of public confidence in law enforcement institutions are the prime reasons for the public to take the law into their own hands.
鈥楾he public is growingly inclined towards creating mob violence as there is no strict action visible from the government,鈥� said human rights activist and Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance member Nur Khan Liton.
He said that people would completely lose their growingly eroding trust in the interim government if it failed to take strict measures right at the moment to improve law and order.
A video showing people beating up two youths and later hanging them upside down from a footbridge went viral on social media on Tuesday night.
Confirming the matter, additional deputy commissioner for Uttara Division Ahammad Ali told 抖阴精品 on Wednesday that the incident occurred at about 9:00pm on Tuesday near BNS Centre in the capital鈥檚 Uttara.
The mob, suspecting them as muggers, hung them upside down on the footbridge, beat them up and then handed them over to the police.
鈥極ne of the injured is admitted at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and another is in our custody,鈥� he said, adding that they were investigating to determine whether the two were actually involved in mugging.
Meanwhile, a mob beat a man named Sharif Ahmed, 30, while he was allegedly snatching a mobile phone in Sylhet on Tuesday night, 抖阴精品 staff correspondent in Sylhet reported, quoting Biman Bandar police sub-inspector Prananjit Mandal.
The SI said that the stolen mobile phone and a knife were recovered from him.
Enamul Haque Sagor, assistant inspector general of police for media and public relations posted at the Police
Headquarters, told 抖阴精品 that the force increased patrols and check posts across the country to prevent crimes, including mob violence.
鈥榃e urge people to hand over the suspects to the police and not to take the law in their own hands. Otherwise they will also have to face punishment for their actions,鈥� he added.
