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print versionThe Daily Star, April 28, 2011
Secy served legal notice for banning free movement
Staff Correspondent
Two human rights and legal aids organisations yesterday served a legal notice on the home secretary and police authorities asking them to inform the grounds of a ban imposed on men and women sitting together near a city lake.
The notice was served after The Daily Star yesterday published two photographs of the Crescent Lake adjacent to Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
Ain O Shalish Kendra (ASK) and Bangladesh Legal and Services Trust (BLAST) served the legal notice on the home secretary, inspector general of police (IGP), commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and Tejgaon police. It also asked them to remove a signboard with a prohibition notice.
The organisations also asked the authorities concerned to inform through investigation about who and under what authority has installed the signboard.
Protesting the prohibition they held that it is totally unlawful and an instance of abuse of power as Sections 32 and 36 of the constitution ensure every citizen’s right of recreation and free movement.
The Daily Star found the signboard already removed yesterday.
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The Daily Star, 27 April 2011
An outrageous notice
ANTI-COUPLE CAMPAIGN
- Photo in The Daily Star 27 April 2011
- Photo: Sk Enamul Haq/Anisur Rahman
When there is hardly any open space left for couples and families to spend afternoons in the crowded capital, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police prohibits male and female to sit together by the Crescent Lake, north of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Inset, It even hung a signboard to warn people. The DMP failed to provide any reason for putting up such a signboard but did say that it would be taken down. Photo: Sk Enamul Haq/Anisur Rahman
