Dhaka, March 12 -- Nazmul Ahsan, the secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources, is facing serious allegations about his involvement in extrajudicial killing while he was deputy commissioner (DC) of Satkhira from 2013 to 2016.

Reports indicate that within just five days of his appointment as the DC in December, a local BNP leader and Agardari Union Parishad Chairman Anwarul Islam was publicly executed in police "crossfire."

Between 2013 and 2014, law enforcement in Satkhira reportedly carried out a series of extrajudicial killings, resulting in the deaths of over 50 opposition leaders and activists.

These incidents are said to have been coordinated under the leadership of then-Superintendent of Police (SP) ChowdhuryMonjurulKabir and ...