Bangladesh: 9 held over lawyer’s homicide linked to Hindu priest Chinmoy Das arrest

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Image Source : REUTERS Chinmoy Krishna Das, who faces a number of fees, is escorted by the police on the Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Court

In a major improvement, not less than 9 individuals have been arrested in connection to the homicide of a Bangladeshi lawyer throughout violence within the nation’s southeastern port metropolis of Chattogram. According to the data launched, the accused have been a part of a bunch of 46 individuals, principally cleanliness employees belonging to the minority Hindu neighborhood, in opposition to whom the case has been filed by the Bangladeshi police in connection to the killing of assistant public prosecutor Saiful Islam earlier throughout clashes between safety personnel and followers of Hindu neighborhood chief Chinmoy Krishna Das after the latter was denied bail and despatched to jail by a Chattogram court docket.

About the arrest

The police said that the arrests have been made after the accused have been recognized by CCTV footage of the court docket premises and the scene of the violence on November 26. They talked about many of the accused have been residents of the town’s Sebok Colony, a spot the place many of the cleanliness employees belonging to the Hindu neighborhood dwell. 

« Saiful Islam’s father filed the case final night time, naming 46 individuals. From which 9 of the accused have been arrested and a manhunt to nab the others was underway,” Abdul Karim, the officer in control of the port metropolis’s Kotwali police station, mentioned.

Further, the official additionally elaborated on the main points concerning the first accused, recognized as Chandan Das. He talked about, based mostly on the proof, that Das was seen chopping the lawyer with a pointy weapon.

Nationwide outrage emerged

Meanwhile, it’s pertinent to notice that within the aftermath of the ugly homicide of the Bangladeshi lawyer Saiful Islam, a nationwide outrage has emerged within the nation with attorneys and political teams taking to the streets demanding stern punitive actions in opposition to Islam’s killers. Some of the teams have additionally referred to as for an entire ban on ISKCON Bangladesh; nevertheless, the belief in its assertion clarified that Chinmoy Krishna Das was expelled from the group lengthy earlier than his arrest and added that ISKCON was not concerned within the homicide or violence.

(With inputs from PTI)




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