Hindu plights stay
on
Even though
media of Bangladesh endeavors to portray that the spate of malice against
Hindus has subsided, the reality is hundreds of miles away from it and the desecration
along with destruction of Holy Deities of Devi Saraswati in the districts of
Netrokona, Nilphamari, Gazipur denote how deep-rooted the malevolence is. It
has been learnt, the destruction of Deities at Barami market in sub-district of
Sripur within the district of Gazipur took place at 3.30 am on Wednesday and it
was done a by a gang of 8 people wearing veils. On the word of Susanta Saha,
president of the Saraswati Puja Committee at Barami market, devotees had left
the place by 11.00 pm on Tuesday. The market, as a result, was almost vacant
and making use of this opportunity, malefactors desecrated, destructed the Holy
Deity. Two people who were sleeping in a shop adjacent to the Puja pandal were
also injured brutally. The incident was investigated
by Ameer Hossain, Officer in-charge of Sripur
police station, and Susanta Saha has filed a case against 8 unidentified people
as regards the incident. Nevertheless, local Hindus have almost no faith on
police and administration and they believe that no justice shall be delivered
in this case also.
The
village of Bhortoshi within the sub-district of Atpara in the district of
Netrokona witnessed desecration and demolition of the Holy Deity of Devi Saraswati
as well and it did also occur on Tuesday night. It has come to knowledge,
problem started when Sharif and Pappu Mollah, two notorious criminals in the
locality, went to the Puja pandal at 11.30 and asked the Puja committee members
to stop the soiree musicale. When Hindu members of the committee said that the
event would end soon, they got enraged and desecrated and demolished the Holy
Deity. A complaint was filed by the committee’s
members against both Sharif and Pappu Mollah to the local police station of Atpara.
But there has been no arrest as allegedly both of them are on the run.
What happened in the village of Dakurdanga
within the sub-district of Jaldhaka in the district of Nilphamari is enough to
ball over any reader. People involved in the desecration followed by destruction
of the Holy Deity of Devi Saraswati in the village are women and they did it to
avenge a personal loss. On the word of local people and also police, they are Rehena
Begum (age 45), her son Raihan (age 18) and also Nazneen (age 25) who happens
to be the wife of Hamidul living in the same Dakurdanga village. People also
said that Rehana who is the wife of Aminur Rahman was involved in a spat with Jagadish
Chandra (inhabitant of the same village) over cutting down a bamboo tree on Tuesday
morning. Even if Jagadish was warned, he defied them. To avenge the insult or
defiance of Jagadish Chandra or a petty Hindu, Rehana and her son, in the evening,
led a large number of people and the fuming mob went to the Puja pandal. It was
followed by vandalizing the Holy Deity. Even if Hindus tried to prevent
assailants, they were overpowered easily. Police went to the village at 6.30 pm
and took Rehena Begum, Raihan and Nazneen into custody. However, villagers are unanimous that
miscreants will be freed and soon, a new hell will be unleashed on the village.
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