Police have arrested 10 individuals, together with 3 leaders of former DUCSU vp Nurul Haque Nur’s organisation Youth Rights Council, over their alleged involvement within the assault on the puja venue at Chattogram’s JM Sen Corridor.
The assault was orchestrated by the three leaders of Nur’s group on Oct 15, the day of the Bijoya Dashami, based on Kotwali Police chief Nezam Uddin.
The arrestees had been recognized as Md Nasir, 25, Mizanur Rahman, 37, and Md Rasel, 25, all members of Youth Rights Council’s Chattogram unit, Yar Mohammad, 18, Md Mizan, 18, Giyas Uddin, Yasin Arafat, 19, Habibullah Mizan, 21, Md Imon, 21 and Imran Hossain.
They had been apprehended throughout raids performed in numerous components of Chattogram metropolis and Satkania.
Nezam stated the attackers had been recognized from the CCTV footage and images of the incident after the assault. To date, police have arrested 100 individuals in reference to the incident, based on him.
“The mastermind of the assault was Nasir, Mizanur and Rasel of Youth Rights Council. They organised a rally and procession simply after the Jummah prayers that day. The assault on the venue stemmed from that rally.”
A number of temples and puja venues got here beneath assault on the afternoon of Oct 13 amid mounting stress after a video of the Quran at a Puja venue in Cumilla went viral. Many shared the video calling for assaults on Hindu websites alleging sacrilege.
Police stated seven individuals died as communal violence unfold to different components of Bangladesh. The legislation enforcers have arrested 450 individuals in 72 circumstances over the assaults and clashes.
After the Jummah prayers on the Anderkilla Shahi Jame Mosque on Oct 13, the attackers tried to interrupt via the gate of JM Sen Corridor’s puja venue when police fired clean pictures and tear-gas shells to disperse them.
Kotwali police filed a case towards 83 individuals and tons of of unnamed suspects in reference to the incident.
Imran Mazed Rahul, a relative of a pacesetter of a neighborhood merchants’ organisation, was arrested later that day.
Rahul revealed that the procession was organised by locals from Khalifa Patti and Ghat Forhad Beg, Nezam stated.
Mizanur, a member of Nur’s organisation, was as soon as concerned with Islami Chhatra Shibir, the scholar affiliate of Jamaat-e-Islami. He was additionally an admin of the Fb group ‘Basher Kella’.
Nur couldn’t be reached for touch upon the matter. Nevertheless, in a rally in entrance of Dhaka College’s Raju Memorial Sculpture on Monday, he stated the assaults on the Hindu temples had been “staged” and had taken place with “political assist”.
