Staff Reporter :The bachelors have been asked to quit their rented flats following the frequent police raids in the city’s different areas for the last few days.As the owners of the houses are now under tremendous pressure by the police to vacate their flats where bachelors reside, they (owners) have decided not to rent their house to bachelors in city’s some areas especially in Kalyanpur. Students, both government and private service holders, and job seekers mainly live in city’s different houses as bachelor. When contacted President of Kalyanpur Somaj Kalyan Malik Samity Mahbubur Rahman Ratan told The New Nation on Saturday that after the Kalyanpur incident, they have taken decision not to rent their houses to bachelors. “We have decided that no house will be rented to the bachelors in our locality. We will also form a monitoring team to oversee whether any owner follow our instruction,” Ratan said. Kamrul Hasan, a student of Titumir College, told this reporter that he along with his friends is residing at a rented house in the Farmgate area. His house owner asked them to quit the flat from the next month if possible. Otherwise they will be removed from the month of September. “There is no available seat in the halls of the college. That is why we will be compelled to stay outside the campus. We rent a flat where I along with six to 10 friends reside. But recently we have been asked to quit the flat. What will we do now? It is very unexpected situation for us,” Kamrul said. Meanwhile, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Saturday rejected the owners’ claim, saying no letter has been issued to the house owners in this regard. Deputy Commissioner (Media) of DMP Masudur Rahman on Saturday told the journalists that they did not issue any instruction to the house owners about renting houses to bachelors. But the owners have been requested to provide information of the bachelors and other tenants to the nearest police station. “It is the owners duty to collect the tenants information and to provide it to the police. The owners will have to collect the chairman certificate from the tenants aged below 18 and to submit it to the police station,” the Deputy Commissioner said. Talking to this reporter, the house owners said they are not interested in taking any risk by renting their houses to the bachelors. Apart from this, they have also to face different sorts of problem like reservation form family tenants as well as locals. So, most of the owners have decided in principle to avoid the bachelors, they said. Md Helal Uddin, an owner of a house situated just opposite to the Taj Manzil at Kalyanpur, said, a flat of a six-story building has been rented to the bachelors. The police have asked him to clear the bachelors from the next month. “I can rent my house to the family tenant. So why I will rent my flat to the bachelors defying the police restriction,” Helal said.
