Chittagong:
 
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Hasan Md Shawkat Ali has categorically stated that the police force will not take responsibility for the anti-state activities of arrested Chittagong Range Reserve Force (RRF) Superintendent of Police (SP) Mohammad Jahangir Alam, asserting that the liability rests entirely on the individual officer.
 
Speaking to journalists at the Police Commissioner's office around 11:30 AM on Sunday (November 15), the commissioner said, "Whoever gets involved in such activities bears personal responsibility. He engaged in anti-state activities on his own accord, and the force bears no liability in this regard. It will be treated strictly as his personal responsibility."
 
Commissioner Shawkat Ali explained that a complaint was submitted to the CMP on Saturday and forwarded to Panchlaish Police Station. Because the matter involved sedition charges, prior government approval was legally mandatory. Following clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs, a regular case was officially recorded at Panchlaish Police Station.
 
"Immediately after recording the case, SP Jahangir was arrested. He is currently in the custody of the CMP's Special Response Unit (SRU), which is also investigating the sedition case. In accordance with standard procedure, he will be produced before the court today," he said.
 
Dismissing suggestions that such incidents create psychological pressure within the force, the CMP chief delivered a stern warning: "The message is clear—anyone who involves themselves in anti-state activities will face the strictest legal action."
 
TWO MAJOR MESSAGES UNCOVERED IN FORENSIC EXAMINATION
 
Earlier, Chittagong Range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Md Abdul Quddus Chowdhury revealed that forensic analysis of SP Jahangir Alam's mobile phones uncovered messages detailing plans to rehabilitate the banned Awami League government by December, including calls to take to the streets "risking their lives."
 
According to the DIG, acting on credible intelligence, both the personal and official phones of SP Jahangir were seized and sent to the Special Branch (SB) at Police Headquarters in Dhaka for forensic examination. Once the forensic tests verified the authenticity of the exchanges, an inquiry report was prepared and legal proceedings were initiated.
 
CHARGES OF LEAKING SENSITIVE INFORMATION AND PLOTTING HASINA'S RETURN
 
Police allege that alongside maintaining contact with leaders of the banned Awami League, SP Jahangir was coordinating with relevant figures regarding a plan for ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to return to Bangladesh in December. He also faces specific charges of leaking internal and sensitive police information to Awami League leaders.
 
Following Home Ministry approval around 10:30 PM on Saturday, RRF Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abul Kashem Chowdhury filed the sedition case as plaintiff with Panchlaish Police Station, leading to Jahangir's arrest from the city's Officers' Mess.
 
Mohammad Jahangir Alam is a 28th BCS (Police) cadre officer who joined the force on 1 December 2010.
 
Previously, a sedition case was also filed against former Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Dhaka's Cantonment Police Station, Rakibul Hasan, who is currently in jail following his arrest in connection with that case.