Tight security everywhere during verdict

Strict security measures were taken in and around a special court in old Dhaka on Wednesday centering the verdicts in two cases filed over the grenade attack on an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004.

Additional number of law enforcers remained deployed in different strategic points of the city, apart from the court area, to avert any untoward incidents.

Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 pronounced the verdicts in the grisly grenade attack.

A high official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told the FE they had taken multiple tiers of security measures ahead of the much-awaited grenade attack verdict to ensure security of the city dwellers and to keep the law and order situation under control.

Apart from uniformed police, plainclothes police and RAB members were also on patrol in and around the court area.

Police put up barricades at different entries to Nazimuddin Road and Chankharpool areas that lead to the court premises.

Police put restrictions on the movement of pedestrians in those areas.

Pedestrians were allowed to move only after they underwent security search conducted by the law enforcers.

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