Police set up check posts centering BNP’s youth rally

Staff Reporter :
The police on Saturday set up check posts at different entrances to Dhaka city and conducted search operations in connection with the BNP youth rally in the capital.
The commuters, however, faced sufferings as a result of traffic jam for setting up these check posts and they were also forced to imbibe the checking up, including mobile phones and hand bags,
The youth rally of BNP’s three youth-student organisations-Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Jubo Dal, and Swechchhasebak Dal was held at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital yesterday noon where BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir delivered address as the chief guest.

Since this Saturday morning, a check post was set up at Aminbazar on the Dhaka-Aricha highway by placing a barricade in the Dhaka-bound lane and various vehicles have been searched ahead of the rally and thereby public sufferance.

Commuters said that they were facing huge traffic jam for a long time for the police check post and most of them could not reach their destination within time.
“I have been stuck in traffic for about one and a half hours. I can’t cross the 5-minute road within this time,” Private car driver Abdur Rahman said.
While visiting the Aminbazar check post in the morning, it was seen that members of the Dhaka District Police were searching various vehicles by placing barricades on the road in the Dhaka-bound lane of the highway. The policemen were seen checking the documents of various vehicles also.

Ibrahim, office-goer from Manikganj, he hopped onto the bus from Dhamrai’s Kalampur area and spent more than an hour between Boliarpur and Salehpur. He claimed, “This seems like unnecessary harassment to us.”
When contacted, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Savar Model police station Deepak Chandra Saha told to the media that they were conducting a check post at Aminbazar as an additional precautionary measure so that no one can enter Dhaka and commit any acts of sabotage.

When asked about the suffering of people due to the traffic jam caused by the check post, he said, “It is not a jam, in fact the vehicles are moving a little slower due to the check post.”
Around 11:30am, the vehicular movement on the highway started to get back to normal as police removed the barricades from the Dhaka-bound lane of the highway.
Police also set up check post in Dhamrai area also of Dhaka-Aricha highway and the search operation were being conducted in the Dhaka-bound lanes of the Dhulivita area.
Apart from this, a check post has also been set up at the Siddhirganj of Narayongonj area on the Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet highway.

“I got into a bus from Chittagong road. When I came to the Mouchak, I saw that the police stopped the bus and searched the entire people including me,” Nazrul Islam Babul, a bus passenger said.
Demanding that the check post is not centering the BNP rally, Siddhirganj Police Station Inspector (Operation) Habibur Rahman said that the check post is our routine work.