Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) again denied war crime scandal hit Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami permission to hold a rally at the Suhrawardy Udyan today (Friday).
Syed Mamun Mostafa, special assistant to DMP Commissioner, said on Thursday that Jamaat was not given permission to hold a rally tomorrow (Friday).
According to sources, Jamaat-Shibir may try to create anarchy in the city in the name of holding rally.
Earlier they were involved in brutal attack on law enforcers across the country.
On July 24, radical Jamaat had announced that it would hold a rally at the north gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque to press home its three-point demand including holding the next national election under a caretaker government.
But DMP denied Jamaat permission to hold the rally on security ground.
The far right party later announced that it will hold a rally at the Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on August 4.
On June 10, Dhaka (south) city unit of Jamaat held a rally at the Institution of Engineers in Dhaka after 10 years with police permission.
Meanwhile, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-2 on Thursday beefed up security in the areas under its jurisdiction to avert any untoward situation.
The targeted areas include Mohammadpur, Adabar, Dhanmondi, Kalabagan, Newmarket, Hazaribagh, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Tejgaon, and the Tejgaon industrial zones of the capital.
An adequate number of patrol teams, comprising both vans and motorcycles, have been deployed as part of a Special Robust Patrol arrangement.
The move comes a day before the scheduled political programmes of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami.
The RAB, however, did not say the programmes are the reason behind the increased security measures.
On Wednesday, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul announced that they will hold a rally in front of the party office in the capital's Nayapaltan area to protest the sentencing of Tarique to nine years in prison and his wife Zubaida to three years in a graft case filed in 2007.
Meanwhile, Jamaat was scheduled to hold a rally at the north gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Friday in demand of a free, fair, and credible general election under a caretaker government.
