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Dhaka Metropolitan Police in a public announcement on Sunday night banned all kind of meetings, rallies, processions and protests near the chief adviser’s official residence Jamuna and the Secretariat from Monday.

‘It will continue until issuing further notice,’ the notice, signed by DMP commissioner Md Mainul Hasan, reads.


The DMP issued the public notice through the DMP ordinance power.

The DMP move came hours after agitating Ansar member clashed with students in front of the secretariat leaving more than 40 injured while advisers to the interim government and officials were confined in the country’s administrative hubs more than 10 hours.

About 34 students and six Ansar members were injured in the clash.

The DMP imposed the ban for the first time after Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim administration took the charge following the fall of Sheikh Hasina,  who resigned as prime minister and fled to India amid a student-led mass uprising.

For the past two weeks, different organisations had been holding demonstrations pressing for various demands, including government jobs around the secretariat and state guest house Jamuna, now the residence cum office of interim government chief adviser, among other places.