Indian HC officials visit Gopal's house: No progress made in priest killing

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Jhenaidah Correspondent :
There is no visible progress, including detecting the motive of the killing of Hindu priest Ananda Gopal Gaguli, has been apparent even after five days into the killing.
Contrarily, the police have been claiming that they have achieved successful progress in discovering the motive of the killers and said that the killers might be arrested at any time.
Meanwhile, the high officials of Indian high Commission in Bangladesh, President of the Communist Party of Bangladesh Muzahidul Islam Selim, State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chadra Chanda, a delegation of the BNP led by Nitai Roy Chowdhury, central leader, and State Minister for Sports and Cultural Affairs Birendra Nath Shikder, among others, visited the house of the priest and the spot where he was killed.
Various other organizations, including Hindu-Buddha-Christian Oikya Parishad, Jhenaidah and the Puja Udjapan Parishad, forming human chain, demonstrated in the district town to protest the killing of the priest in remote Jhenaidah village by unknown assailants on last Tuesday morning.
But the family members, as well as the local Hindu community people, especially, the Brahman community people, feel insecure, as no one of the killers was yet arrested although five days elapsed from the killing.
Satya Gopal Ganguly, the youngest son of Ananda Gopal Ganguli said, may be the family received many condolence messages and moral support,, the incidents of killing disheartened the Hindu community as a whole.
Satya Gopal Ganguly said, his family members could not understand why a single murderer could not be nabbed in last five days?.
Shefali Rani Ganguly, wife of Ananda Gopal Ganguli virtually did not show her eagerness to appear before the media because of shock.
Asim Kumar Ganguly, a nephew of the priest said, they were hopeless because there was no progress in detecting the killers, and as no one was arrested in this connection or no motive was detected yet.
The Additional Superintendent of Police, Jhenaidah, Azbahar Ali Seikh, expressed his optimism about arresting the killers. “The police is But the police official did not detail in the interest of the investigation right then.
The additional SP once again said, the plain cloth police men aided by the police in uniform have been conducting searches of the killers. The family members of the priest are now under strict security measures, he said.
Three assailants on a motorcycle hacked to death a sexagenarian Hindu priest Ananda Gopal Ganguly, 69, on his way to a local temple at remote village of Karatipara in Jhenaidah Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
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