Citizens have no right to take law into their own hands: Home adviser

Home Affairs Adviser Lt. Gen. (retd) Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has stressed the need to raise public awareness about mob justice, saying citizens have no right to take the law into their own hands.

“No one has the right to enforce justice outside the law. If someone commits a crime, hand them over to the authorities,” he said.

The adviser made the remarks while talking to reporters after a meeting with police officers under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) at the DMP headquarters in Ramna on Thursday.

His comments came hours after incidents of lynching at Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University campuses that left two people dead.