A Correspondent :
Terming Chittagong city’s traffic management system terrible, Chittagong Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mesbah Uddin on Thursday urged senior traffic officials to actively try to lessen sufferings during Ramadan.
Addressing a meeting of the District Law and Order Committee at his office, he accused traffic sergeants and constables of gossiping during work hours and said paying due attention to work would bring about a positive change.
Mesbah said chickpeas and sugar prices were at a “tolerable” level for regular drives by the administration’s mobile court.
He said the courts were also checking prices of clothes at shopping malls. “Our mobile courts found a punjabi of Tk 1,000 being sold at Tk 3,000 in the shopping malls. They can profit Tk 500 per punjabi but how can they charge at such a high rate,” he asked.
The district superintendant of police, Hadiz Akter, said warrants have been issued for arresting some 20,000 people and this resulted from their inability to conduct drives for the union parishad polls.
The number of arrests daily in the district’s 16 police stations rose from around 180 to 250, among whom some 230 had warrants issued for their arrest, he said.
He also urged preventing harassment of innocent people during drives. He said police were collecting information about bachelors and tenants to resist militant activities.
Terming Chittagong city’s traffic management system terrible, Chittagong Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mesbah Uddin on Thursday urged senior traffic officials to actively try to lessen sufferings during Ramadan.
Addressing a meeting of the District Law and Order Committee at his office, he accused traffic sergeants and constables of gossiping during work hours and said paying due attention to work would bring about a positive change.
Mesbah said chickpeas and sugar prices were at a “tolerable” level for regular drives by the administration’s mobile court.
He said the courts were also checking prices of clothes at shopping malls. “Our mobile courts found a punjabi of Tk 1,000 being sold at Tk 3,000 in the shopping malls. They can profit Tk 500 per punjabi but how can they charge at such a high rate,” he asked.
The district superintendant of police, Hadiz Akter, said warrants have been issued for arresting some 20,000 people and this resulted from their inability to conduct drives for the union parishad polls.
The number of arrests daily in the district’s 16 police stations rose from around 180 to 250, among whom some 230 had warrants issued for their arrest, he said.
He also urged preventing harassment of innocent people during drives. He said police were collecting information about bachelors and tenants to resist militant activities.
