Dhaka: A prime suspect and his accomplice are accused of spreading communal hatred on social media and recently inciting violence against the minority Hindu community. Bangladesh A court official said he has confessed to his crime in the pre-trial hearing.
Shaikat Mandal Confessed before a magistrate on Sunday that it was his Facebook post that led to violence in Rangpur in Peerganj sub-district on October 17 during the Durga Puja festival in the country.
board mate Rabiul Islam | The 36-year-old cleric has been charged with arson and robbery.
“Shaikat” Board and his partner Rabiul Isami He has accepted his role before Delwar Hussain, a senior judicial magistrate in (north-west) Rangpur.”
In a police raid, he was arrested from Ghazipur on Friday and a case was registered under the Digital Security Act.
Mandal is a student of the philosophy department of Rangpur’s Carmichael College, and was expelled from the Student League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, following his arrest.
A report in bdnews24.com quoting an officer of the Rapid Action Battalion said that he had uploaded objectionable content on Facebook to increase his number of followers.
The official said Islam helped Mandal instigate Muslims in the village through announcements over loudspeakers on Friday.
The report said police officials claimed that violence broke out in Peerganj after a rumor spread that a Hindu man had posted religiously objectionable material on Facebook.
According to the police, around 70 Hindu houses were torched during the devastation that took place on October 17.
Media reports said that at least seven people have so far confessed to their crime as part of the pre-trial legal proceedings, which have led to 683 arrests and over 70 cases on 24,000 suspects, most of whom were anonymous. .
There have been reports of attacks on Hindus during Durga Puja celebrations in Bangladesh after an alleged blasphemy post went viral on social media on October 13.
RAB officials said that apart from Mandal and Islam, the police have also been detained, Iqbal Hussain, who allegedly kept a Quran at a Durga Puja site in Kumila, and Faiz Ahmed, who made a video of the Quran at the place of worship. was posted, RAB officials said.
On Saturday, members of minority religious communities under the banner of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council staged mass hunger and dharna demonstrations in the Shabagh area of central Dhaka and other parts of the country.
The United Nations has widely condemned the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh.
Last week, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina | He directed his Home Minister to initiate immediate action against those inciting violence by using religion as he asked people not to trust anything on social media without fact-checking.
Hindus constitute about 10 percent of the 169 million population of Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Shaikat Mandal Confessed before a magistrate on Sunday that it was his Facebook post that led to violence in Rangpur in Peerganj sub-district on October 17 during the Durga Puja festival in the country.
board mate Rabiul Islam | The 36-year-old cleric has been charged with arson and robbery.
“Shaikat” Board and his partner Rabiul Isami He has accepted his role before Delwar Hussain, a senior judicial magistrate in (north-west) Rangpur.”
In a police raid, he was arrested from Ghazipur on Friday and a case was registered under the Digital Security Act.
Mandal is a student of the philosophy department of Rangpur’s Carmichael College, and was expelled from the Student League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, following his arrest.
A report in bdnews24.com quoting an officer of the Rapid Action Battalion said that he had uploaded objectionable content on Facebook to increase his number of followers.
The official said Islam helped Mandal instigate Muslims in the village through announcements over loudspeakers on Friday.
The report said police officials claimed that violence broke out in Peerganj after a rumor spread that a Hindu man had posted religiously objectionable material on Facebook.
According to the police, around 70 Hindu houses were torched during the devastation that took place on October 17.
Media reports said that at least seven people have so far confessed to their crime as part of the pre-trial legal proceedings, which have led to 683 arrests and over 70 cases on 24,000 suspects, most of whom were anonymous. .
There have been reports of attacks on Hindus during Durga Puja celebrations in Bangladesh after an alleged blasphemy post went viral on social media on October 13.
RAB officials said that apart from Mandal and Islam, the police have also been detained, Iqbal Hussain, who allegedly kept a Quran at a Durga Puja site in Kumila, and Faiz Ahmed, who made a video of the Quran at the place of worship. was posted, RAB officials said.
On Saturday, members of minority religious communities under the banner of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council staged mass hunger and dharna demonstrations in the Shabagh area of central Dhaka and other parts of the country.
The United Nations has widely condemned the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh.
Last week, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina | He directed his Home Minister to initiate immediate action against those inciting violence by using religion as he asked people not to trust anything on social media without fact-checking.
Hindus constitute about 10 percent of the 169 million population of Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
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