Police visit CGS ED Zillur’s village home ‘to gather information’

Executive director of Centre for Governance Studies Zillur Rahman.  file photo

Bangladesh desk: Executive director of Centre for Governance Studies Zillur Rahman said that police visited his village home at Gosairhat of Shariatpur on Thursday.

In a Facebook post on Thursday night, Zillur said, ‘The visit intended to scare me, my family and neighbors, and hinder my work as an anchor and works related to the think tank CGS.’

Zillur said that police visited the village home to ‘gather information’ about him

‘I live in Dhaka, everyday anchor a talk show (Tritiyo Matra) at a widely available and popular television channel, and have an office in Dhaka. If police needed to know anything about me, they could have visited me or contacted me via telephone. Yet they visited my ancestral home. It caused enormous inconvenience to the people of the locality, and to my extended family,’ Zillur said.

‘It’s not only a deplorable act but also deeply disconcerting to see that the police are being used to silence my voice,’ he added.

Zillur urged the government to investigate these kinds of actions, and stop any future occurrences.

Contacted, Gosairhat police officer-in-charge Aslam Sikder said that police had been collecting information about respectable and reputed persons of Gosairhat upazila. A police team visited Zillur’s village home as a part of the beat policing activities, he added.

CGS has recently hosted Bay of Bengal Conversation in Dhaka city with participants of representatives from different countries, including diplomats of different countries working in Bangladesh.

Several ministers and Awami League leaders avoided the programme.