Police threaten DNCC officials with arrest as they go for dismantling police box

Staff Reporter :
Officials of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) went on an operation to evacuate a traffic police box under construction in the capital’s Asadgate intersection on Tuesday morning.
At that time, they were stopped by the traffic police. After waiting there for about an hour, the officials and employees went back without doing the evacuation work.
The North City officials who went to the evacuation operation complained that the police members not only prevented them from the evacuation operation, but also threatened to arrest them and seize the dump trucks and payloaders used in the evacuation operation and send them to dumping.
The North City Deputy Chief Waste Management Officer Mofizur Rahman complained that a one-room house has been built for the traffic police to sit in the road divider at Asadgate. The construction of that house is still going on.
Seeing the matter, the regional Executive Officer Motakabbir told the policemen why they did not take permission before constructing it. At that time, the police members told the regional executive officer that they had taken permission from the mayor.
However, according to the decision of the city officials, the North City officials prepared the pay-loader and dump trucks on Tuesday morning and went to the operation. At that time, there were three to four policemen. They called the senior police officers over the mobile phone.
As soon as the police officers came, they started saying, ‘Arrest them and take their payloader to the dumping’. City officials said that when the matter was immediately reported to regional Executive Officer Motakabbir Ahmed, he spoke to the senior officers of the police.
After a while he asked everyone to leave without raiding.
In this regard, Motakabbir Ahmed said that the memorial plaque of Asad at the road junction on the Asad Avenue is hidden due to the police box under construction. On Tuesday morning, when they tried to break it, the police stopped them.
Deputy Chief Waste Management Officer Mofizur Rahman was also present there. The police threatened to arrest him.
Regarding the complaint, DC Traffic Shahed Al Masud told the media saying that there was no threat here. Traffic police box has been renovated, but no new construction at Asadgate.
“If they (DNCC) want to demolish any structure, there are some procedures including the presence of magistrate. Suddenly someone comes and breaks a house, this is not possible,” DC added.