{"id":4734,"date":"2010-03-11T08:33:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T08:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:34:31","slug":"asks-concern-comment-police-aiming-masses-encouraging-take-law-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2010\/03\/11\/asks-concern-comment-police-aiming-masses-encouraging-take-law-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"ASK&#8217;s concern over the comment of Police aiming at masses encouraging to take law into their own hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) strongly condemns and expresses grave concern over the speech of police encouraging the public to take the law into their hands in their endeavor to raise public awareness against drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>From the newspaper sources we came to know that about 300 law enforcement officers of 5 police stations from Tejgaon, conducted a raid in Karwan Bazar to apprehend drug dealers, stop illegal drug peddling and raise awareness amongst the masses. During the operation, they used the fallowing language while urging the public \u201cDrive them out of the area by breaking their limbs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We believe no one has the right to take the law into their own hands, not even the police officers.\u00a0 Such encouragement to opt for extrajudicial ways is an affront to establishing the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>We heard such irresponsible remarks from the police several times in the past.\u00a0 We demand the Government to take appropriate measures to impede the law enforcement officers from giving such comments and adopt proper legal procedures to end drug peddling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) strongly condemns and expresses grave concern over the speech of police encouraging the public to take the law into their hands in their endeavor to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-statement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4735,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}