A Muslim mob laid siege to the Patiya police station in Chittagong district of Bangladesh on Monday, demanding that the police hand over a Hindu boy accused of insulting Prophet Muhammad. The mob also attacked an army vehicle after seeing a young boy in civilian clothes and mistaking him for the Hindu victim. An army official was injured in the onslaught.
A 22-year-old Hindu youth named Partha Biswas Pintu was arrested on Monday on the charges of committing blasphemy. A day earlier, a police complaint to the effect was filed by one Kamrul Islam, accusing Pintu of making objectionable remarks about Prophet Muhammad on Facebook . A mob of radical Muslims gathered outside the Patiya police station on learning about Prophet Muhammad. They demanded the handover of Partha Biswas Pintu so that they could lynch him like Utsab Mandal.
The police refused to give in to their demands. The local Muslims and madrassa students vandalised the waiting room of the police station. They also trapped a car belonging to the Bangladesh Army and injured an official in the process. Visuals of the mob violence have now gone viral on the social media. Now it has come to light that the Muslim mob attacked a total of 2 army vehicles. However, they managed to escape the scene.
A large team of police and army personnel was deployed in the area to prevent any situation. Patiya Circle SP Ariful Islam remarked, ‘The crowd gathered outside the police station due to a Facebook post and we arrested the accused earlier in the morning and brought him to justice. The crowd became agitated without understanding the legal process. Additional police and army forces were later deployed, and the situation was brought under control’.
The Hindu youth was produced in a local court and the police sought his remand for further interrogation. The army official, who was attacked by the mob, sustained injuries to his hand and underwent treatment at the emergency department of Patia Upazila Health Complex. The present case is reminiscent of the attack on a Hindu boy named Utsab Mandal last month after he was accused of committing blasphemy by a Muslim mob.
A large mob gathered at the spot, demanding that the Hindu boy be handed over to them. The mob of 3000-5000 people surrounded the office, calling for instant justice. However, there have been at least 205 attacks on Hindu temples, shops and businesses since the ouster of Sheikha Hasina as Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
A Hindu boy named Utsab Mandal was almost lynched by a Muslim mob on accusations of ‘blasphemy’ in the Sonadanga residential area of Khulna city. Muslim students have forced as many as 60 Hindu teachers, professors and government officials to resign from their positions. Human rights activist and exiled Bangladeshi blogger, Asad Noor, has revealed that the minority community is now being coerced into joining ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’.
On 6th September, a procession of Hindu devotees carrying the idol of Lord Ganesha came under attack in the Kadam Mubarak area in Chittagong city of Bangladesh.
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