Tight security to ensure trouble-free celebration

All the venues for the occasion, including the National Mausoleum at Savar, Bangabandhu Stadium and Bangabhaban, will be put under an unassailable security cover on the eve of the Victory Day, officials told UNB on Monday.

Meanwhile, an inter-ministerial security meeting on the observance of the Victory Day was held at the Home Ministry yesterday with State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar in the chair.

At each venue, four-layer checkpoints will be put up with security men checking people with sweeper, archway and metal detector. Besides, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) dog squad and women police will be on duty. The special deployment will begin after December 10.

The officials said the meeting proposed to limit the duration of children-juvenile rally at the Bangabandhu Stadium to one and half an hour "for security reasons". Raising V-day arches will be discouraged.

Secretaries of the Ministries of Home Affairs and the Liberation War Affairs, IGP, and DGs of Rab, BDR, Ansar, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner and other senior officials were present at the meeting.

Babar would not specifically say what good news he wants to give the nation when recurrent bomb attacks and threats by suspected Islamist militants wreck people's nerves.

"Those supplying explosives to militants are being caught," he told reporters after the meeting.

"More good news awaits...you will be knowing about it when time comes," Babar said.