Gulshan DC attached to DMP HQ hours after OC’s removal

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has attached Gulshan division Deputy Commissioner Tanvir Ahmed to its headquarters.

In an order signed by DMP Commissioner Mosleh Uddin Ahmed today (16 September), Tanvir was attached to DMP headquarters with immediate effect.

Earlier in the day, Gulshan Model Police Station officer-in-charge Md Daud Hossain was also removed from his post and attached to DMP headquarters.

The two officers were moved following a procession by the Awami League and its affiliated organisations in the capital’s Gulshan area on 11 September, despite a ban on their political activities.

Around 11:45am on 11 September, leaders and activists of various Awami League-affiliated organisations and activists of the banned Chhatra League reportedly gathered in the Gulshan Police Station area.

Police said crude bombs were exploded in and around the area, and protesters threw crude bombs at police when law enforcers moved to disperse them.

Police arrested two people at the scene and recovered five crude bombs. At least 75 people have since been arrested in connection with the incident, according to police sources.

Later, a case was filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act, naming 118 people and 80-100 unidentified people as accused.

Today, a Dhaka court placed two more accused on seven-day remand in the case. Earlier, 24 accused were placed on 10-day remand on 12 September, while nine were sent to jail on 13 September, another nine on 14 September and seven on 15 September.

Meanwhile, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the government had intelligence information about the planned procession.

Speaking to journalists at the Secretariat yesterday, he said intelligence agencies had information about the activities of the Awami League.

“We had intelligence information,” he said, adding that police might not have anticipated that activists could gather in the area after attending Jumma prayers on 11 September and engage in such activities.