No 31st night celebration on open space

If you are planning to celebrate 31st night on Dhaka streets, you have to rethink your plans.

Law enforcement officials have already hinted that there will be strict restrictions on celebration of 31st night on open places across the country to avoid any untoward incident.

People have to end their outdoor events before 6:00 pm on the day. If anyone wants to hold any indoor events on the occasion of 31st night, he or she must inform law enforcing agencies.

Bars in the capital and elsewhere in the country must be closed on the night of Dec 31. There is a ban on firework on security grounds.

Police will beef up security measures across the country including the capital city Dhaka. They will take special measures in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone.

Law enforcers will strengthen vigilance to foil any attempts of terror attacks by local militant outfit including Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) or IS inspired extremists during the 31st night celebration.

“Many youths cannot comply with the law and that’s why the police will take special measures,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told journalists this week after holding a meeting on law and order at his Secretariat office in Dhaka.

The members of law enforcing agencies in plain clothes will also be deployed, he said.

People say that though this might affect their activities on the day, they are happy with the government measures.

Adnan Hasan, a residential student of Zia Hall of the Dhaka University (DU), told Jago News that the restriction is necessary.

“There is a concern about terror attack following the Gulshan café attack on 1st July, 2016. The restriction is not unexpected,’ he said.

“It has been taken for our betterment and I am happy,” he added.