DMP denies Rizvi’s claim of locking Naya Paltan office
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‘BNP office was locked by its security guard on October 29’
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has denied the statement of BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi regarding the law enforcers keeping the party’s central office in Naya Paltan locked.
Rizvi, after entering the office by breaking the lock, also claimed that when party leaders and activists crowded around the office, they were detained and taken away by the police.
In this regard, DMP said that the police had never locked the BNP central office, and they have also investigated the matter.
According to the information obtained from the investigation, it is known that after the rally on October 28, the security guard of the BNP head office, Sohag, stayed overnight at the office, and later on the morning of December 29, he locked the gate and left the office with the keys.
DMP also said that further relevant information and evidence have been kept with the police.
Rizvi wrote a letter to the DMP commissioner with a request for the return of the key to the main gate of the office. For this reason, Rizvi's statement regarding the locking of the BNP office and the letter to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner requesting the return of the keys are not appropriate, DMP said.
On November 13, DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman claimed that they did not lock the BNP office and the party men could go to the office at any time.
BNP central office in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan was reopened on Thursday morning, nearly two and a half months after closure following clashes with police during the party’s grand rally on October 28, 2023.
Some BNP leaders and activists, led by the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, unlocked the collapsible gate of the office around 10:42am.