A High Court yesterday directed the government to take necessary action immediately for removing closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) from the service rooms of the beauty parlours across the country.
The court also issued a rule upon the five government officials to explain within two weeks why they should not be directed to make a policy on the use of CCTV cameras in service rooms of the parlours.
The five are information secretary, home secretary, labour secretary, inspector general of police (IGP) and director general of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).
The court order came following a writ petition filed by Advocate Alena Khan, chief executive of Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation.
Advocate Alena filed the petition following an outcry over privacy at beauty parlours after a woman made allegations to police and the media that she was video taped by a CCTV while taking service at Persona, a beauty parlour in the city, on September 30.
A HC bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif passed the order.
The petition says after the Persona incident, most of the people irrespective of female and male used to take parlour services are in fear that they might have been video taped by CCTVs.
Alena Khan told reporters that they sought directives from the court, as there is no guideline for installation of CCTVs in the beauty parlours to protect the life and liberty of the people.