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Cop watch on BNP office beefed up Khoka's house raided

Staff Correspondent
Police have beefed up their watch over BNP leaders and activists ahead of the main opposition's October 25 rally in the capital.
This is because BNP Dhaka city unit Convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka on Monday at a programme in the capital's Bhasani Auditorium had directed party leaders and activists to be armed with cleavers and axes to counter any attack obstructing them from joining the rally. Law enforcers have already started looking for Khoka and stepped up vigilance on BNP's central office in Naya Paltan, Dhaka.
The BNP is scheduled to hold a rally on October 25 to press home its key demand for holding the next general elections under a non-party caretaker government.
"We are watching the situation and will take measures to bring to book those we think can put the city dwellers in danger, disrupt public life and deteriorate law and order," said Joint Commissioner of Detective Branch of Police Monirul Islam.
A day after Khoka's call to his party men, a team of Detective Branch raided the Gopibagh house of Khoka, also BNP vice-chairman, but did not find him there.
"Our effort to arrest him is still on," Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner (public relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told The Daily Star yesterday.
He said Khoka was accused in a number of cases.
Khoka's personal secretary Monirul Islam Khan said the detectives were still keeping watch on Khoka's house while police in pickup vans were patrolling around the house and asking locals about Khoka's whereabouts.
Following the raid, Khoka's brother Anwar Hossain told newsmen that around 25 detectives had raided the house for an hour from 12:45pm.
He claimed that police had told him that they raided the house over political reason. The law enforcers had not seized anything from Khoka's house, said Anwar.
Meanwhile, several hun-
dred policemen on Thursday, since 9:30am until 3:30pm, kept BNP's central office cordoned off.
"The law enforcers did not let anyone enter or leave the building since the morning," alleged Abdul Latif Jony, assistant office secretary of BNP, on Thursday.
He also alleged that police had been directed to arrest anyone trying to enter or leave the party office.
Asadul Kabir Shaheen, BNP joint office secretary, on Thursday told The Daily Star that nearly 500 policemen had been deployed around the party office that day.
Meanwhile, Ashrafuzzaman, DMP dep-uty commissioner (Motijheel zone), denied the allegation of cordoning off the BNP central office. He said they had only beefed up the security in the wake of Khoka's direction to BNP leaders and activists.