Staff Reporter :
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said that the Cumilla temple tension and aftermath incidents in different parts the country were isolated matter.
He said, none is in the state of severe anxiety after sad incidents in different parts of the country, as everything is now normal.
The Home Minister said it while addressing a press briefing in the conference room of his ministry in the capital.
The home minister briefed the media about tightened securely at Cox’s Bazar and Bhasanchar Rohingya camps.
Foreign Minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen and BGB and police and other civilian officials were there.
Replying to a query, Home minster said that the police had identified the person who carried holy Quran into a Comilla temple.
“The person is fugitive now. We have identified him. He is not using mobile phone. The arrest will make it clear as to who were behind the crime,” the minister said. The minister, however, said that the incident was purposefull
“The guilty has been, however, identified using CCTV footage of a nearby mosque of the temple,” the minister said. He said that police did everything to protect temples across the country. But some isolated incidents took place.
Replying to a query, home minister said, people seem reluctant to give evidence in the courts in the cases filed over unwanted unrest.
Talking about the meeting, the minister said that they had decided to tighten security in and outside the Rohingya camps to free from illegal weapons and drugs there.
Replying to another query, the minister said that police arrested several persons in connection with Rohingya leader Muhibullah killing. He said that the motive of the killing would be clear soon.
UNB adds: Perhaps there was a deliberate provocation behind keeping a copy of the Quran at a temple in Cumilla, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday.
“Everything was done in a planned way. The man, who had kept the Quran at the temple, might have done it as per others’ instruction…there might be provocation behind it. We’ll be able to know the motive after his arrest,” the home minister said after a meeting at the Bangladesh Secretariat.
“All the incidents (of communal violence) including that of Cumilla were carried out separately with a motive. There’s no panic among people now. Everything is under control,” he added.
He said after examining the CCTV footage of the surrounding area it has been ascertained that the man who kept the holy Quran at the Cumilla temple took it from a mosque.
“The man had been to Mazar mosque thrice that night. It was clear from the CCTV footage that the man took the Quran from the mosque to keep it at the temple,” he said.
Regarding the murder of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah, Asaduzzaman Khan said, “We’ve arrested almost all the killers. Soon their motives will be revealed to the media.”
He added that security at the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar will be beefed up.
The home minister said drives to stop drug smuggling in the areas adjacent to the Rohingya camps have been intensified.
Besides, steps are being taken to control childbirth rate at the camps.
Steps to transfer 1 lakh Rohingyas to Bhasanchar will begin by December next, he added.
