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Kumarkhali OC Mojibur Rahman Police Station said Harunar Rashid, head of Bagha Jatin Degree College, had brought a case against unknown persons under the Special Powers Act of 1974.
Four people have been brought to the police station for questioning in the nightly incident in the Kaya union Kaya village in Kumarkhali upazila on Thursday night.
They are Nizamul Haque Chunnu, president of Bagha Jatin Degree College, Harunar Rashid, director, Khalilur Rahman, night watchman, and Anichur Rahman, president of Kaya Union Juba League.
OC Mojibur Rahman said police visited the scene around 11 a.m. Friday after receiving information from locals. Four people have already been detained by the police for questioning about the incident. In addition, various departments of the administration, including the police intelligence agency, have launched investigations. Anyone involved will be arrested very soon and placed under the law.
Kushtia Police Superintendent SM Tanvir Arafat visited the site and said that after the vandalism of the Bangabandhu sculpture earlier this month, it was decided in the presence of parliamentarians, district administration, police and other representatives to install CCTV cameras to ensure the sculpture’s safety.
“But we were not informed that there is a bust of Bagha Jatin here. That is why the university authorities cannot avoid responsibility. The four detainees are being questioned.”
Visiting the site, Kushtia Deputy Commissioner Aslam Hossain said that the bust of the revolutionary leader of the anti-British movement Bagha Jatin was crushed by criminals in the dead of night just a few days ago. It is very sad.
He said that law enforcement agencies have started the process of identifying the culprits after closely monitoring and analyzing the matter.
Kumarkhali Upazila Nirbahi officer Rajibul Islam Khan said that the bust of the revolutionary Bagha Jatin was installed on December 6, 2016 at the Bagha Jatin College premises in Kaya village.
“Who or what broke the sculpture in the dead of night hitting the right side of the face and nose. The matter came to light after locals visited him on Friday morning. “
Condemnation protest
Meanwhile, leaders of various social and cultural movements have protested the vandalism of Bagha Jatin’s sculpture.
Karshed Alam, leader of Kushtia’s Sammilita Samajik Andolan, said the sculpture of the revolutionary Bagha Jatin was crushed amid nationwide protests over the vandalism of the Bangabandhu sculpture under construction here. The police also detained leaders of the government party for questioning about the incident.
“It just came to our notice then.” Radical forces have entered the political arena, carrying out these attacks from the shadows and creating chaos in the country. “
He thinks that if politics is not refined, the sculpture will be broken or the violence of the fatwas will continue.
He also said that it would not be possible to overcome the situation if the true culprits were not identified through a thorough investigation and unraveling the mystery.
Shafiur Rahman Shafi, organizer of the Charan Cultural Center, said: “During the post-independence period, various governments sponsored communal fundamentalist forces, with money, helping to increase power by adding anti-liberation sentiments to textbooks. Today the whole nation has to pay its compensation ”.
He called for people from all walks of life to be aware of and express themselves through social and cultural struggles to get rid of it.
On condition of anonymity, a teacher from Bagha Jatin Degree College said: “We need to find out if the sculpture was broken by one party to hang the other due to a grouping dispute between local political leaders.”
Jatindranath Mukherjee, the leader of Jugantar Dale, a revolutionary organization of the anti-British movement, was born in 189 in Kumarkhali, Kushtia district. He got the name ‘Bagha Jatin’ for killing a tiger with his bare hands.
Jatin died in a shootout with the British police on September 9, 1915. He was only 36 years old at the time.
Leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam, an alliance of organizations focused on Qaumi Madrasa, began to oppose the initiative taken to install a sculpture of Bangabandhu at Dholairpara in Dhaka in the year of Mujib.
Hefazat’s deputy general secretary, Mamunul Haque, threatened to throw the sculpture at the Buriganga if it was done. Hefazat Amir Junaid Babungari then threatened to tear down anyone’s sculpture at a religious gathering in Chittagong.
In protest, an under construction sculpture of the Father of the Nation was vandalized in Kushtia on the night of December 4. Two students and two teachers from a local madrassa have been arrested in the incident and have already confessed in court.
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