Security beefed up at 68 jails fearing ‘sabotage’

Jail authorities have enforced a ‘security alert’ on the country’s 68 jails on warning from intelligence agencies of further criminal attacks after the murder of an alleged criminal in front of Jessore jail gate last week.
‘We have taken maximum security measures for the jails on intelligence’s information that there may be a possibility of sabotage,’ Dhaka Central Jail’s senior superintendent Jahangir Kabir told New Age.
The jail super said that the Inspector General of Prisons issued a ‘Red Alert’ to the jails in a phone message on June 22. As a part of the instruction, armed guards were told to stay alert in and outside of the prisons and frisk visitors and incoming inmates, he said.
Over 600 people accused in cases of militancy and war crimes are now prisons across the country, said an official of the Prisons Directorate.
The intelligence warning of further attacks came two days after miscreants on two motorcycles shot dead 37-year old Hemayet Uddin soon after he was released on bail from the Jessore central jail on June 20.

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