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Up to 250 people have been charged in three separate cases of vandalism and arson at two Hindu homes in the Korbanpur village of Purbadhai East Union in the Muradnagar Upazila Bangrabazar Thana area of Muradnagar Upazila de Comilla for comments on the state of religious issues in social networks Facebook. Muradnagar Upazila, Deputy Commissioner (Lands), Saiful Islam Kamal, also convicted five defendants through a mobile court. On the other hand, the administration has issued Section 144 around a Hindu temple in Andikot Union of the same upazila due to the panic over the vandalism and arson in the houses of Hindus in the village of Korbanpur. Police said the administration issued Section 144 from morning to night on Monday (November 2) for fear of adverse incidents surrounding a public meeting called at Andikot Union.
Muradnagar Upazila Nirbahi (UN) officer Abhishek Das said the administration had information that a public meeting would take place on Monday regarding the vandalism and arson incident at five two-house houses in Korbanpur of the Purbadhai East Union. at Andikot Union. Section 144 aired on Andikot Union from Monday morning until night for fear of any adverse incident.
He added that Saiful Islam Kamal, deputy commissioner of Muradnagar upazila, had convicted five defendants involved in vandalism and arson in Korbanpur through a mobile court.
Md. Among the convicts. Ershad (40) 18 months, Helal Uddin Bhuiyan (45) 18 months, Enu Mia (48) 6 months, Md. Shanu Mia (38) 18 months and Md. Babu Mia (30) has been sentenced to 6 months in prison without conditional freedom.
Bangrabazar Police Station OC Kamruzzaman Talukder said there were three separate cases of vandalism and arson in five houses of two Hindus in Korbanpur. Among them, the local UP president, Navkumar Shiv, Liton Debnath and Sandeep, who were victims of the attack, presented three cases. In his case, 91 people, 8 people and 64 people have been charged respectively. In addition, more than 500 people have been indicted and unidentified in these three cases.
He added that the five convicts convicted by the mobile court are also unidentified convicts in all three cases.
Meanwhile, DIG Anwar Hossain from Chittagong Range visited the scene of vandalism and arson of five Hindu houses in the Purbadhai East Union village of Korbanpur in the Muradnagar Upazila Bangrabazar Thana area of Comilla on Sunday afternoon following a comment in the Facebook status of social networks. Also present were Muradnagar MP Yusuf Abdullah Harun and Comilla Police Superintendent Syed Nurul Islam.
Police and locals said Shankar Debnath, a teacher from the village of Korbanpur, and Anik Bhowmik, from the village of Andikut, commented from their Facebook IDs in support of a cartoon of the Prophet (PBUH) displayed in France. When the matter came to the attention of the locals, there was tension in the area.
Protest demonstrations were held in the area on Saturday night. Police arrested the two men via mobile tracking for their alleged involvement in the incident. Later on Sunday, several houses of the Hindu community in the village, including Bon Kumar Shiv, president of Purbadhai West UP, were vandalized and set ablaze following rumors of profanity on Facebook.
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