Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has asked people not to use high-volume sound devices in the capital’s residential areas to ensure peaceful living atmosphere for the city dwellers.

Concerts or musical events using sound amplification devices, like microphones and loud speakers, can disrupt peaceful living atmosphere in the residential areas, a press release of the DMP said today.

In this context, the DMP authorities asked the city dwellers to refrain from such activities using microphones and loud speakers in the residential areas across the capital, the release read.

Earlier on January 19, an elderly man died after being assaulted by his neighbours for protesting loud music on the rooftop of their apartment.

Victim Nazimul Haque, 65, was a former superintendent of the land ministry. He had heart conditions and recently had a bypass surgery.

The DMP came up with the directives in the backdrop of the incident.