“We are also in direct contact with the RK Mission in Dhaka”, Vikas Swarup, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs said here on Friday. Swarup said the First Secretary (Consular) in the High Commission visited the RK Mission this morning to review the security.
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Officials of Belur Ramakrishna Mission also met those in the PMO here and discussed the threat. You can’t preach your religion here.
Security in and around the complex has already been beefed up by the authorities in Dhaka.
On Wednesday, Swami Sevananda of Dhaka Ramakrishna Mission received a letter written in Bengali in which the militants threatened him to hack to death between June 20-30, if he does not leave Bangladesh and stop preaching Hindu religion. “We provided the copy of the photo to police for investigation after receiving the threat”, the priest said.
The MEA feels the terrorists are taregting the Awami League government in Bangladesh for its India-friendly actions and steps against radical Islams.
He said one “AB Siddique” apparently sent the letter.
This comes a day after a priest of the mission filed a complaint with police that he recieved a letter from the Islamic State Bangladesh chapter threatening his life.
Modi visited the mission during his visit to Dhaka past year and also did meditation there for some time.
The lecturer is the only Hindu victim to survive an attack by the Islamists, who have hacked to death four other members from the community in recent months.
The Islamic State-affiliated militant groups have claimed most of these killings even as the Bangladesh government has been repeatedly dismissing the presence of the global terror group in the country.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday vowed to catch “each and every killer” and asked people to help capture the militants to support the anti-Islamist security clampdown that is underway.
