Barisal Correspondent :
Agitated local people on Saturday noon smashed a den of alleged imposter ‘ peer’ and beaten a follower of them at Hapania village under Mahilara union of Gournadi upazila in Barisal district.
Soikat Guha Piklu, local UP chairman, said Halim Akon, Islamic Studies teacher of Mahilara Degree College, Idris Kobiraj and Mainuddin, local influential, claiming themselves as followers of Gani Shah, a Pir of Comilla and his local representative Fakir Malek Talukdar of the village since 2005.
They buried dead body of Malek Talukdar at the house of Halim Akon in 2006 and creating dens of different unsocial activities and drug addiction they continued practices of their sect.
These activities agitated local people and they earlier also attacked the followers of Malek Shah, but failed to oust them from the area as the fakirs were connected influential corners, Piklu said.
Recently the local people again complained against the imposter fakirs to local administration accusing them for practicing and spreading unsocial activities and drug addiction in the area.
Agitated local people on Saturday noon smashed a den of alleged imposter ‘ peer’ and beaten a follower of them at Hapania village under Mahilara union of Gournadi upazila in Barisal district.
Soikat Guha Piklu, local UP chairman, said Halim Akon, Islamic Studies teacher of Mahilara Degree College, Idris Kobiraj and Mainuddin, local influential, claiming themselves as followers of Gani Shah, a Pir of Comilla and his local representative Fakir Malek Talukdar of the village since 2005.
They buried dead body of Malek Talukdar at the house of Halim Akon in 2006 and creating dens of different unsocial activities and drug addiction they continued practices of their sect.
These activities agitated local people and they earlier also attacked the followers of Malek Shah, but failed to oust them from the area as the fakirs were connected influential corners, Piklu said.
Recently the local people again complained against the imposter fakirs to local administration accusing them for practicing and spreading unsocial activities and drug addiction in the area.
