New Year’s Eve: No outdoor celebrations this time too
Like the previous year, Dhaka Metropolitan Police has banned holding of any programmes in open spaces, including roofs of buildings, in the capital on the New Year’s Eve today.
DMP also wants city dwellers to inform it about any sort of indoor celebration beforehand so that law enforcers can provide safety to people and that any sort of untoward incident can be avoided.
“All forms of public gathering on roads, flyovers, rooftops or in any open spaces will be prohibited from the dusk of December 31,” DMP Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam said yesterday.
A large number of law enforcers, both in uniforms and plainclothes, will be deployed in different parts of the capital, the DMP boss said.
The DMP chief also instructed people not to use fireworks or crackers for celebration, adding that the violators would have to face consequences.
He also requested city dwellers not to stay at Hatirjheel and Dhanmondi Rabindra Sarobar after 8:00pm today.
No outsiders will be allowed on Dhaka University campus after 6:00pm. Resident teachers, students, and staffers have been requested to show valid identity cards to the security personnel at the university entrances.
Checkpoints will be set up at the entry points of Gulshan and Baridhara areas.
Residents of these areas have been asked to return home by 8:00pm.
The two areas will be only accessible through the Kamal Ataturk Avenue from Kakoli intersection and Bir Uttam AK Khandakar Road from Mohakhali’s Amtoli intersection.
Residents wishing to enter these areas after 8:00pm will only be allowed to do so after a body check, said the commissioner.
Bars have been instructed to shut down before 6:00pm and people with gun licence will not be allowed to carry their firearms for nine hours from 8:00pm today.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said law enforcement agencies had taken all necessary security measures to ensure a peaceful celebration of the 31st night.
“Hopefully, people will celebrate the New Year without any trouble,” he said after inaugurating the annual general meeting of Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (Crab) at Dhaka Reporters Unity.
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