Safety drive personnel stand guard as Hindu devotees arrived to supply prayers Durga Puja pageant, outdoors a temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on October 11, 2024.
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Amid random vandalism throughout Durga Puja celebrations, police on Saturday (October 12, 2024) mentioned it has deliberate intensive safety measure for the Bijaya Dashami procession and idol immersion on Sunday.
Three management rooms have been arrange on the route of the procession, three watchtowers have been put in, together with on the Wiseghat the place immersion will happen and a canine squad, a bomb disposal unit, crime scene group, and SWAT group might be on standby across the clock to make sure a festive and easy celebration, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) mentioned in launch.
The five-day Hindu spiritual pageant started with an invocation of Goddess Durga, an event known as Maha Shasthi on Wednesday. The celebrations would conclude with the immersion of Goddess Durga murtis on Sunday.
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A crude bomb was allegedly thrown at a Durga Puja mandap within the Tanti Bazar space of Previous Dhaka and though the bomb caught fireplace, no person was injured, day by day Prothom Alo mentioned, including, the incident befell on Friday night time.
From October 1 onwards until Friday, 17 individuals had been arrested and a few dozen circumstances registered after Bangladesh witnessed about 35 untoward incidents associated to the continuing Durga Puja celebrations, The Dhaka Tribune mentioned quoting Inspector Common of Police (IGP) Md Moinul Islam.
The Day by day Star, quoting DMP launch, mentioned the proposed route for the immersion procession will start at Dhakeshwari Nationwide Temple.
Earlier within the afternoon, apparently prompted by the most recent assault on the Durga Puja mandap, Mohammed Yunus, the Chief Advisor to the interim authorities of Bangladesh, visited the Dhakeshwari Nationwide Temple, one of many distinguished shakti peeths, within the outdated a part of the town as in opposition to the sooner introduced plan of a Sunday go to.
The Day by day Star quoted Mr. Yunus as saying throughout a operate on the Dhakeshwari temple that the federal government needs to construct Bangladesh in such a means the place each citizen’s proper might be ensured.
“In the course of the Durga Puja, legislation enforcement companies have performed the ‘robust’ job of guaranteeing public safety with sincerity. Nevertheless, it’s a collective failure to hunt legislation enforcement companies’ assist whereas celebrating an event,” Mr. Yunus mentioned.
Two days in the past, there was a theft of a golden crown from a well-known Kali temple in southwest Bangladesh.
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Describing the incidents of vandalism as deplorable occasions and flagging that these comply with a scientific sample of desecration of temples and deities in Bangladesh, India name upon the federal government of Bangladesh to make sure the protection and safety of Hindus and all minorities and their locations of worship, particularly throughout this auspicious pageant time.
The minority Hindu inhabitants — Hindus represent nearly 8% of the 170 million Bangladesh inhabitants have confronted common vandalism of their companies, and properties and destruction of temples throughout and for the reason that student-led violence erupted ensuing within the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5.
Printed – October 13, 2024 03:18 am IST
