Daily Janakantha - Wednesday, November 10,
2002
Picture: (Courtesy Daily Janakantha) At Left, desecrated and destroyed Idol of
Goddess Kali at Shubedya Pashchimpara of Keraniganj. Attacking the opposition as
a result (middle). Army arrested one in this connection (right)
Keraniganj: One
puja mandop at Karaniganj of Dhaka was desecrated, ransacked and destroyed by
miscreants on Friday. Once resisted by local Hindu community, miscreants
sexually assaulted four minority women at the Puja promise. According to eye
witness, 15/20 people were carrying the Idol of Goddess Kali for Puja on Friday
afternoon at Shubedya Pashchimpara Hindu
Cemetery
for Kali Puja. At that time, a group of miscreants of Najir group attacked the
puja mandop. They exploded couple of hand bomb and desecrated two idols. Local
Hindus tried two resist the miscreants who went on rampage at the premise and
sexually assaulted four minority women namely Bhalobasha Rani, Munu, Jolpana and
Nirasha. The ages of the assaulted women are 25, 50, 40 and 25
respectively.
Latter in Saturday, members of puja committee strongly resisted the misadventure
of the miscreants which invoked attack and counter attacks. Hearing the news of
street fighting, army rushed to the spot and arrested two person namely Hira
(17) and Ibrahim (20). The arrested persons are the member of Najir group.
