Hours after one Iqbal Hossain was linked by the Bangladesh police as the crucial suspect in instigating the recent violence in Comilla and other places, he was arrested from Cox’s Bazar on Thursday, according to a report by Dhaka Tribune that cited the Comilla supervisor of police (SP), Faruk Ahmed The elderly officer said Hossain, who was before indicted of keeping the Islamic holy book Quran at a Durga Puja venue, was nabbed from the Shugandha sand area of Cox’s Bazar around10.10 pm.
The Bangladeshi review also cited Cox’s Bazar fresh police supervisor Md Rafiqul Islam, who verified the development and said Hossain was transferred to Comilla “ right down” after the arrest The 35- time-old Hossain, hailing from the Suhanagar area of Comilla, allegedly placed the Holy Quran at one of the Durga Puja pandals on October 13, which started the violence killing at least three persons. The man was linked after police analysed hours of videotape footage from CCTV cameras installed at Durga Puja venues.
Hossain, in the footage, could be seen taking the Quran from a original synagogue and entering a Durga Puja point. He was latterly seen walking down with a club, taken from an hero of Lord Hanuman Several Hindu tabernacles in Bangladesh were ransacked latterly amid violent demurrers after the videotape footage went viral on social media posts that showed the Quran being placed at the bases of a Hindu hero. On Sunday, a mob damaged 66 houses and set on fire at least 20 homes of Hindus.
Police said over 450 suspected tabernacle bushwhackers have been arrested so far in different corridor of the country. Forty-one of them have been arrested for the Comilla incident and four of them are Hossain’s associates.
The attacks on Hindus in the Muslim- maturity country are, still, not new; mortal rights groups say there has been a “ continual pattern” of attacks on religious nonages over nearly a decade and the recent spree in violence has only managed to renew old injuries. According to estimates handed by a Deutsche Welle report citing Ain o Salish Kendra ( ASK), a Bangladeshi mortal rights organisation that documents attacks on nonage communities, there have been over attacks in Bangladesh targeting Hindus since 2013. Other groups, still, note that the factual number of attacks could be much advanced than what the ASK has estimated.
