DHAKA: At least nine people have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a solicitor during murder in Bangladesh’s southern port city of Chattogram, authorities said on Saturday. After being denied bail and sent to prison by a Chattogram court, 46 people, mostly cleaners from the majority Hindu group, were arrested in connection with the killing of assistant public attorney Saiful Islam, who was in his early 30s, during conflicts on Tuesday between surveillance personnel and Hindu community leaders, they were arrested.
In a rebellion situation, Das, Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatani Jagran Jote’s director, was detained on Monday from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in this city.
” Saiful Islam’s parents filed the scenario last evening naming 46 people”, said Abdul Karim, the officer in charge of the port state’s Kotwali police station.
Karim claimed that the majority of the accused were Hindu, Sebok Colony, a center for cleaning staff in the city.
He claimed that nine of the accused had been detained and that a search for the others had begun.
He claimed that CCTV footage of the courtrooms, the site of the crime on November 26, provided the suspects ‘ identities.
One suspect, identified as Chandan Das, was the main accuser when he was seen striking the prosecutor with a strong object.
Lawyers and political parties took to the streets in protest of the event, which sparked a wave of outcry across the country. Some groups demanded that ISKCON Bangladesh get banned, while others wanted strict punishment for the murderers of Islam.
But, ISKCON Bangladesh claimed Das was kicked out of the organization prior to his arrest, adding that ISKCON had not been a part of the crime or violence.
