Home Affairs Adviser retired lieutenant general Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury. File Photo

DHAKA, Feb 13, 2025 (BSS) - Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury today said they would take the decision after holding meeting with all concerned on the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in line with the proposal of the UN rights body OHCHR.
 
"We all will sit together. We will inform our decision after the sitting," he said replying to a question about the UN proposal to ban the RAB after a function here.

The home adviser earlier inaugurated the Online App for Visa on Arrival (VoA) or Transit Visa application for foreign nationals at the Home Ministry conference room at Secretariat.

At the same programme, he also launched the process of making complaints over the national emergency service 999 by passport applicants to simplify the passport verification.

The home adviser however said his government has welcomed the UN fact finding report, saying, "They did a good work."
 
The United Nations rights organ OHCHR has suggested restructuring of Bangladesh's security and policing systems as it released its fact finding report on violence during the July-August Uprising on Wednesday.

"Disband the Rapid Action Battalion and return personnel not involved in serious violations to their home units," said the report of the OHCHR or the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.