Despite this fact, he said, the police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have taken a tough stand on preventing extortion.
“What is being sold at Tk20 at Karwan Bazar is being sold at Tk40 a short distance away. That means, thinking about making more profit is more impactful here than extortion. We have found this after calculating the amount of extortion from a truck heading towards Dhaka from Jashore,” he told reporters after a programme at Police Staff College Bangladesh in Mirpur.
The minister said the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway has already been brought under CCTV cameras to stop extortion and in the future, all highways will be covered by CCTV cameras.
