Dhaka: At the very least 9 individuals have been arrested in reference to the homicide of a lawyer who was killed throughout violence in Bangladesh’s southeastern port metropolis of Chattogram, police stated on Saturday.
They had been arrested after a case was filed towards 46 individuals, principally cleanliness employees belonging to the minority Hindu group, for his or her involvement within the homicide of assistant public prosecutor Saiful Islam, who was in his early 30s, throughout clashes on Tuesday between safety personnel and followers of Hindu group chief Chinmoy Krishna Das after he was denied bail and despatched to jail by a Chattogram court docket.
Das, the spokesperson for Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatani Jagran Jote, was arrested from the Hazrat Shahjalal Worldwide Airport right here on Monday in a sedition case.
“Saiful Islam’s father filed the case final night time naming 46 individuals,” stated Abdul Karim, the officer accountable for the port metropolis’s Kotwali police station.
Karim stated a lot of the accused had been residents of the town’s Sebok Colony, a hub of cleanliness employees belonging to the Hindu group.
He stated 9 of the accused had been arrested and a manhunt to arrest the others was underway.
He stated the accused had been recognized by way of CCTV footage of the court docket premises, the scene of the violence on November 26.
Police stated one individual recognized as Chandan Das was the first accused as he was seen chopping the lawyer with a pointy weapon.
The incident sparked nationwide outrage with attorneys and political teams taking to the streets demanding stern punitive actions towards Islam’s killers whereas some teams needed ISKCON Bangladesh to be banned.
ISKCON Bangladesh, nonetheless, stated Das was expelled from the organisation lengthy earlier than his arrest and added that ISKCON was not concerned within the homicide or violence.
