Security beefed up around TV channels

In the wake of the latest militant attacks on a Gulshan restaurant and Sholakia Eidgah, security has been beefed up around different private television channels last night fearing terrorist attacks.  

Sources at three channels said police had been deployed in front of their offices in the capital and strict checking had been carried out before entry.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah visited Independent Television Channel at Tejgaon while officer-in-charges of different police stations visited several other channels last night as part of the security alert.

The DMP commissioner will continue visiting the TV houses today and tomorrow and will brief the channel authorities on how to tighten their security.

“There are threats that militants may capture any electronic media house to broadcast their message,” Biplob Kumar Sarker, deputy commissioner of DMP (Tejgaon zone), told The Daily Star.

“Apart from our security arrangement, we are telling the television channel authorities to tighten their own security,” he said. 

Abdur Rashid, OC of Tejgaon industrial police, and Nurul Muttaqin, OC of Vatara police, said the same.

Securities around various hospitals, government offices and mosques have also been beefed up.   

Independent Television, Channel 24, Jamuna and News 24 are housed in Tejgaon and Vatara areas.