Staff Reporter :
Police have identified around 50 people from videos captured during the communal attacks in Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria.
Brahmanbaria police’s Additional SP Iqbal Hossain told The New Nation on Friday afternoon that police had collected many videos capturing attack to identify the guilty.
“We have identified around 50 people from the
videos and we will soon put them on trial,” he said.
A senior district police official seeking anonymity said that police would not spare anyone, no matter how influential, if they were involved in the attack.
There were strict instructions from the higher authority to be hard on the evil persons during this drive, the official added.
Locals and victims of the attack alleged that influential people from Nasirnagar were behind the attacks on the Hindu community that took place on October 30. At least 10 temples and hundreds of houses of the community were vandalised.
The National Human Rights Commission’s fact finding committee has also named several men saying they are influential locally and were behind the attack.
Police have identified around 50 people from videos captured during the communal attacks in Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria.
Brahmanbaria police’s Additional SP Iqbal Hossain told The New Nation on Friday afternoon that police had collected many videos capturing attack to identify the guilty.
“We have identified around 50 people from the
videos and we will soon put them on trial,” he said.
A senior district police official seeking anonymity said that police would not spare anyone, no matter how influential, if they were involved in the attack.
There were strict instructions from the higher authority to be hard on the evil persons during this drive, the official added.
Locals and victims of the attack alleged that influential people from Nasirnagar were behind the attacks on the Hindu community that took place on October 30. At least 10 temples and hundreds of houses of the community were vandalised.
The National Human Rights Commission’s fact finding committee has also named several men saying they are influential locally and were behind the attack.
