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End of private car requisitions

Kausar Islam Ayon
The 103 Ka(1) authorises the police commissioner to take private vehicles for a maximum period of seven days. But alleged discriminatory and excessive use of this provision by the police has given rise to a lot of questions
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is going to repeal the provision 103 Ka (1) of the DMP Ordinance used for requisition of private vehicles and will introduce a new act in this regard.
The DMP hopes that the fresh act will stop such requisitions and open the way for a permanent solution to the problem.
The traffic department of DMP stopped requisitioning vehicles last week following a verbal order from the higher authorities.
The High Court on August 11 asked six top government officials to explain why the provision 103 Ka
(1) should not be declared ultra vires of the constitution and fundamental rights.
The 103 Ka(l) authorises the police commissioner to take private vehicles for a maximum period of seven days. But alleged discriminatory and excessive use of this provision by the police has given rise to a lot of questions.
DMP Commissioner Ashraful Huda informed that they would not go for requisitioning private vehicles any more and will try to fulfill the need by taking cars from government and non-government organisations instead.
"We took the decision to stop harassment of the public," said
Huda. "If anyone disobeys this order we will take divisional action against him," he added.
The news comes as a relief for private vehicle owners.
"I have a microbus for family use. The traffic police took requisition of my vehicle thrice within the last six months. Every time they gave it back to me after using for four or five days, I had to send it for servicing," saidAKMZamaluddin.
Traffic sources said that they were now facing an acute problem to meet the demand of cars from different departments.
"We require 220 to 250 cars every day but can arrange only twenty-five percent of the demand
through vehicles owned by different organisations," said a source in the traffic department.
Ashraful Huda however informed that they were looking for a permanent solution. "We will discuss with the concerned governmental departments to solve this problem," said Huda.
Officials at the traffic department said that not enough cars were available as many organisations have registered their vehicles in personal names.
"We can not get the desired number of vehicles from an organisation because of this," said a police officer.