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Security checks bring harassment for Gulshan commuters

City Correspondent
Commuters and local residents have complained of unnecessary harassment at the five makeshift police checkpoints set up on entry routes to the diplomatic zone of Banani, Gulshan and Baricihara.
The checkpoint situated near the Gulshan Shooting Club stops mostly cabs and. cng-run autorickshaws coming from the Tejgaon area. The ones at Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Baridhara, Badda and Mohakhali check all kinds of vehicles.
But commuters say that the stretch from the Tejgaon industrial area into Gulshan is notorious for
hijacking and extortion especially in the evening but police petrol is hardly evident there.
Rashu Ahmad, a businessman from Gulshan was mugged during the Ramadan on that road.
"I was travelling in a rickshaw and the mugging took place right infront of the BMW showroom. There was not a single soul to help me and there was no patrol police nearby also. I then rushed to the police checkpoint infront of the shooting club and reported the incident but policemen there instead of helping me, told me to contact the Tejgaon police station.''
Sub-inspector Ibrahim at one
checkpoint said that they did not have the manpower to go beyond Gulshan. "It is the responsibility of the Tejgaon police to patrol or place mobile courts in that area," he said.
"We are not stopping every autorickshaw or cab anymore. Only vehicles with groups of youth and suspicious looking people are stopped. Those carrying ladies are not frequently checked," he added.
Taxi drivers allege that the check points are only a pretext for extorting money by policemen even if the necessary papers of the vehicles are in order.
"They search the car for illegal
stuff and arms. If nothing is found, they then take the documents for checkingandtriesto blackmail the driver into paying them money," said a cab driver. "This tendency increased ahead of the Eid," he added.
Precious time is also lost at these checkpoints.
"Sometimes it takes 15 to 20 minutes to search a taxi and that's a lot of time wasted during rush hours," said Abdul Qayum, a Gulshan resident.
"However, all these checking often come to nothing as most miscreants either take the bus or find other ways to get past the law," Qayum added.