Bangladesh lawyer’s killing: Police register case, 90% of accused are Hindus

Police have registered an FIR in the matter wherein a lawyer was killed during clashes between protestors and police in Chattogram after Hindu religious leader Chinmoy Krishna Das was arrested on Tuesday.

Assistant public prosecutor Saiful Islam, who was in his early 30s, was killed during clashes between security personnel and followers of Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, spokesperson for Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatani Jagran Jote said.

Around 90 per cent of the people named as accused in the FIR are members of the Hindu community.

On the day of the violent protests, Nazim Uddin Chowdhury, president of the Chittagong Lawyers’ Association, said that protesters dragged a lawyer from beneath his chamber and hacked him to death.

The violence erupted after Das was denied bail and sent to jail by the Chattogram’s Sixth Metropolitan Magistrate court in a sedition case. Police said Islam was critically wounded in the clashes and rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead.

On Wednesday, at least 30 suspects were detained in Chattogram city for their alleged involvement in the killing of Islam and attacking security personnel over the arrest of the Hindu leader.

The spokesperson said the detained individuals would be arrested for trial after initial investigations and more suspects could be arrested if their involvement was found.

On Tuesday, after the court denied him bail and ordered his imprisonment on Tuesday, Das’s followers started to protest, disrupting the movement of the prison van carrying him. Police and eyewitnesses said at least 37 people, including 10 policemen, were wounded after police and BGB troops used batons and sound grenades to disperse the demonstrators who clashed with the security personnel.

A case was filed against Das and 18 others on October 30 at Chattogram’s Kotwali Police Station on the complaint of a leader of former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who accused them of disrespecting the national flag in the city’s Laldighi Maidan during a rally of the Hindu community on October 25.

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