Govt initiates stringent security for Eid

Over 100,000 law enforcers including police, RAB and Ansar were deployed Wednesday across the country for smooth celebration of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, reports BSS. A 6000-strong contingent of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was deployed at different strategic points of the country to maintain law and order. Of them, around 2500 were engaged in the capital city alone. The heightened security measures will be in force until November 11 for maintaining a conducive law and order situation during the festivity. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hasan Mahmood Khandker told the news agency Tuesday that a three-phase security arrangement-pre, during and post-Eid-was made for smooth celebration of the Eid-ul-Azha." "We planned the security measures attaching priority to cattle markets. Around 5759 RAB personnel were deployed in and around the cattle markets across the country. Of them, 2337 members of the RAB were posted at city's 16 cattle markets," Additional Director General (operation) Col Mohammad Mojibur Rahman told newsmen Wednesday while visiting Kamalapur Cattle Market. Fake note identification machines and closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras were installed in each of the cattle markets in big cities across the country Law enforcers have also taken massive security measures to curb illegal toll collection from vehicles carrying sacrificial animals, snatching of animal hides, forcible sale of hides at low prices, obstructing transportation of hides and ensure safe Eid shopping. The police, the RAB and other members of law enforcement agencies have been asked to strengthen coordination of patrol duty to curb all sorts of illegal activities during the festival. Security measures have already been taken at different important bus terminals, Sadarghat Launch Terminal, Kamlapur Railway Station and cattle markets in the city. Plainclothes police will keep watch on 144 markets and shopping malls in the city during the Eid holidays. No truck loaded with hides and skin of the sacrificial animals will be allowed to leave the city for four days from the Eid day (November 7).