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Law Minister Anisul Haq on Monday said some 7,001 cases were filed across the country as of January 31 of this year under the Digital Security Act (DSA).
The minister said this in reply to a tabled question from Gonoforum MP Mukabbir Khan elected from Sylhet, reports UNB.
He said that the Ministry of Home Affairs' public security division is concerned over the question of how many people have been arrested so far under the DSA.
Therefore, this part of the question has been transferred to the department of public security division of the Home Ministry as per the rules of the Secretariat, Anisul added.
In response to another query of Awami League MP Abul Kalam Azad elected from Jamalpur, the law minister said that currently 36.70 lakh cases are pending in the trial courts till March 31 of this year.
Among them, the number of civil cases are 15.84 lakh and criminal cases are 20.86 lakh.
The minister said that among the country's 64 districts, maximum 5.44 lakh cases are in Dhaka and the second highest 2.71 lakh cases are going on in Chattogram.
The much-debated DSA was passed in Parliament in September, 2018.
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