Amidst ongoing spiritual tensions in Bangladesh, a mob shouting slogans vandalised three temples on Friday in Chattogram which has witnessed the protest and unrest within the area after the arrest of former ISKCON member beneath sedition costs.
The assault occurred round 2:30 pm in Harish Chandra Munsef Lane, situated within the port metropolis, the place the Shantaneshwari Matri Temple, the close by Shoni Temple and the Shantaneshwari Kalibari Temple have been focused, PTI reported citing information portal BDNews24.com.
“A gaggle 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,” temple authorities mentioned, as per the PTI stories.
Abdul Karim, the chief of Kotwali Police Station, confirmed the assault, stating that the assailants tried to wreck the temples.
Nonetheless, police mentioned that the injury to the temples was minimal following a confrontation between the 2 teams throughout which each side threw brickbats at one another.
“A procession of a whole bunch arrived after the Juma prayers. They began shouting anti-Hindu and anti-ISKCON slogans,” mentioned Tapan Das, a everlasting member of the Shantineshwari Fundamental Temple administration committee.
“We didn’t impede the attackers. When the state of affairs worsened, we referred to as the military, who arrived shortly and helped restore order. All of the temple gates have been closed earlier than midday. The miscreants arrived unprovoked and carried out the assault,” additional advised BDNews24.com, PTI reported.
Earlier, Non secular chief Chinmoy Krishna Das, a former member of the Worldwide Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Bangladesh, was arrested in reference to a sedition case and later his bail was additionally denied which activated the protest by Hindu neighborhood in varied places in Bangladesh, together with within the capital Dhaka and Chattogram.
(With PTI Inputs)
