Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzad Ali has sounded a note of warning of taking prompt legal action against any sort of extortion from rickshaw drivers, reports BSS.
“No more extortion from the hard-earned income of rickshaw drivers will be allowed and the extortionists will not be spared anymore,” he said while a delegation of the battery-run rickshaws and easy bikes drivers met him at his office.
He asserted that if any police personnel are found involved in extortion, they will face the music.
The DMP commissioner said that officers-in-charge (OCs) of police stations will face suspension if they refuse to file cases of any incident of extortion.
After giving a patient hearing to complaints of extortion by local influential figures, the commissioner said they would not tolerate extortions.
The DMP chief has suggested of forming committees involving police and local community members aimed at checking the extortions.
He called upon the rickshaw drivers to disclose the names of the extortionists to help bring them to justice, saying, “If you see no action being taken, I will quit the job.”
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
