There will be no existence of section 57: Mustafa Jabbar

Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar said, Digital Security Act was finalized in the parliamentary standing committee. If the law is passed then police cannot take any direct action against anybody. They will only be able to file case after obtaining permission from Director General of Digital Security Agency. If the act is passed then there will be no existence of section 57.

He said these to the newsmen after joining the second session of the third and last day of the Deputy Commissioners’ conference at the cabinet conference room in the secretariat on Thursday.

The minister said, we want to stop digital and cyber crimes. Robbing expression of independent opinions is not our aim. At present the cases under section 57 will be solved under the existing legal process.

Mustafa Jabbar said, we have to remember one thing that the impact of digital crimes is much more than the normal crimes. So, digital crimes should be curbed after being in the legal framework of technology.

He said, the government wants to build digital Bangladesh. That will not be centered in Dhaka, from the capital to union and village level everything will be digitalized. There will be no union in Bangladesh where digital touches are not reached.

To implement the government’s plan of digital Bangladesh there is no alternative to cooperation of DCs. Because, they are performing their duties in such a position where they have to maintain communication between the people at the extreme lower level and to the people at the top state level. So to reach the digital service well and truly at the village level cooperation of DCs is much needed.

AH