Handover illegal firearms in a week to avoid cases: Sakhawat

Home Affairs Adviser Brigadier General (retired) Sakhawat Hussain on Monday (Aug 12) asked to handover illegal and unauthorised firearms, including the rifles looted from law enforcers during the recent violence, to police by 19 August.

He said: "If those arms are not returned to nearby police stations, we will go for a weapon hunt. If we get weapons from anyone then, two charges will be lodged [against the holders] for carrying illegal and government firearms."

Sakhawat gave the ultimatum while talking to reporters at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka.

In the morning, he visited Ansar members who suffered injuries during the mass protest that eventually forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign.