Dhaka:
Three Hindu temples had been vandalised by a slogan-shouting mob on Friday in Bangladesh’s Chattogram which has witnessed protests and violence since a former ISKCON member was booked underneath sedition prices.
The assault happened round 2:30 pm within the port metropolis’s Harish Chandra Munsef Lane, the place the Shantaneshwari Matri Temple, the close by Shoni Temple, and the Shantaneshwari Kalibari Temple had been focused, information portal BDNews24.com reported.
“A bunch of a number of hundred slogan-shouting individuals threw brickbats on the temples, damaging the Shoni Temple and the gates of the opposite two temples,” the information portal quoted temple authorities as saying.
Kotwali Police Station chief Abdul Karim confirmed the assault, saying that assailants tried to break the temples.
Police, nonetheless, mentioned the injury to the temples was minimal after the confrontation between the 2 sides, with each teams throwing brickbats at one another, it added.
Tapan Das, a everlasting member of the Shantineshwari Major Temple administration committee, instructed bdnews24.com: “A procession of lots of arrived after the Juma prayers. They began shouting anti-Hindu and anti-ISKCON slogans.” “We didn’t hinder the attackers. When the scenario worsened, we referred to as the military, who arrived shortly and helped restore order. All of the temple gates had been closed earlier than midday. The miscreants arrived unprovoked and carried out the assault,” BDNews24.com mentioned additional quoting him.
Non secular chief Chinmoy Krishna Das, a former member of Worldwide Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) of Bangladesh, was arrested in reference to a sedition case on Monday and denied bail on Tuesday.
It triggered protests by Hindu group members in varied areas in Bangladesh, together with within the capital Dhaka and Chattogram.
On October 30, a sedition case was filed towards 19 individuals, together with Das, at Chattogram’s Kotwali Police Station, accusing them of disrespecting Bangladesh’s nationwide flag in Chattogram’s New Market space throughout a rally of the Hindu group.
On Tuesday, New Delhi expressed concern over the chief’s arrest and denial of bail, and requested Bangladesh to make sure the protection of Hindus and different minorities.
The week’s anti-Hindu incidents have led to a diplomatic row between the 2 South Asian neighbours.
India on Friday mentioned the interim authorities in Bangladesh should reside as much as its duty of defending all minorities because it expressed severe concern over the “surge” of extremist rhetoric and rising incidents of violence towards Hindus in addition to assaults on temples.
Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar instructed Parliament that India has taken severe observe of incidents of violence towards minorities in Bangladesh and that it’s the main duty of Dhaka to guard the life and liberty of all of the residents, together with minorities.
However, Bangladesh on Friday expressed deep concern over the violent protest on the Deputy Excessive Fee in Kolkata and urged New Delhi to make sure the protection of all its diplomatic missions in India.
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