Temple Principal Gaurango Brahmachari filed the case naming 35 persons and 1,000 unnamed others with Kotwali police on Saturday night following a meeting with the district administration and the police. In the case, Gaurango also claimed that the attackers had damaged properties worth Tk30 lakh, SI Fazle Azim Patwari said. According to police, Muslim devotees of different ages attacked the temple with sticks on Friday for playing devotional songs during a competition that coincided with the Jumma prayers. The incident took place only two months after a communal tension between Muslim devotees and Hindu worshippers in Gendaria area of Dhaka allegedly over grabbing the land of a temple. Moreover, Iskcon’s Dinajpur unit President Birendra Nath Roy survived a gun attack on November 30 last year while militants launched bomb and gun attack on an Iskcon temple in the district on December 10.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 04, 2016 19:52 UTC