Dhaka: Security Agent Bangladesh on Saturday arrested a man in his 30s, which was believed to be the second key suspect behind a lot of last violence against Hindu attacks and hordes of temples in Bangladesh during the Puja Durga celebration, police officials said.
Shaikat Mandal, one of the mastermind behind Mayhem October 17 in the District of Palugaj Rangpur Barat Laut, and his accomplices were arrested from Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka on Saturday, said Action (RAB) Anti-Crime Elite official.
Mandal has lived on Facebook, who incited people and triggered a wave of violence, said an official Rab.
At least 70 Hindu houses and shops were burned in the attack on Pirganj following the Mandal Facebook post on October 17.
His arrest came a day after the police had arrested Hossain Iqbal, 35, the main suspect from the Cox Bazar area, and the man who had him allegedly placed the Koran in the Puja durga place in Cumilla.
Hossain is currently placed under the detention of the seven-day police as a security institution and other intelligence will join to interrogate it.
So far, the police have arrested nearly 600 people from various parts of the country to incite violence against Hindus during the Puja Durga celebration.
In the related development, Mohammad Fayez, who was charged under the Bangladesh digital security law (DSA) to incite people through social media sent to prison on Friday night, the Star Daily newspaper reported.
Meanwhile, members of the Minority religious community carry out mass-hunger and sit in the Central Shabagh Dhaka area and other parts of the country under the Bangladesh Fendain Hindu-Christian-Christian Buddha.
“Several thousand people have joined the mass-laper protest and sitting in Dhaka’s Shabagh, Andarkilla from the city of Port-south from the chattogram and other parts of the country,” Secretary with the Council of the Monindra Kumar Nath told the media.
Nath said a large number of social and cultural groups and followers of Islamic faith had also joined demonstrations to express their solidarity with members of the minority community.
Hindu attacks in Bangladesh have been widely cursed by the United Nations.
Mia Sppo, the UN resident coordinator in Bangladesh, said in a Twitter post on Monday that attacks on Hindus against Bangladesh’s constitutional values ​​and needed to stop.
On Tuesday, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina instructed the minister at his home to begin immediate action against those who incited violence using religion when he asked people not to believe anything on social media without examining facts.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement underlines that the Bangladeshi government “firmly condemned the incidents and recorded serious reactions from within and outside the Hindu community.” Hindus is about 10 percent of the population of 169 million majority Muslims Bangladesh.