On the killing of blogger Neel, he said police were investigating it “with top priority”.
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The minister and police chief’s remarks are “saddening and confusing”, said Rana Dasgupta, a Hindu lawyer and secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, a national forum of religious minorities. Neel’s wife, Asha Moni, has reportedly filed a murder case against four unnamed people.
“Hurting religious sentiments is a crime according to our law, and for hurting someone’s religious sentiment, the person will be punished by up to 14 years in jail”, police Inspector General AKM Shahidul Hoque told reporters in Dhaka August. 9.
Alams said they also talked about the progress of investigation into the murder of secular writer Avijit Roy, a naturalised US citizen. Neel was hacked to death by four assailants inside his flat in the capital’s Goran area on Friday.
Ansar-al-Islam, an Islamist group, believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent by intelligence officials, reportedly claimed responsibility of the killing in an email to media organizations hours after Neel’s death, calling the blogger an enemy of “Allah”.
Dhaka: Bangladesh police have asked secular bloggers not to “cross the limit” while writing on religious issues, even as authorities failed to make any headway in the brutal murder of a fourth blogger who hacked to death by suspected al-Qaeda-linked Islamists.
“Those who wanted to destabilise the country with violence are behind the killings”, said Amu. “Arrest them”, he added.
“It’s such a dramatic deterioration in a relatively short space of time”.
The German government has strongly condemned the murder of secular blogger Niladri Chaterjee. Some of the people accused of committing atrocities during the war went on to join the country’s Jamaat-e-Islami Islamist political party, some of them getting elected to government positions over the following decades. Police said the men gained entry by pretending to be potential new tenants.
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Most of the bloggers killed recently were either involved in the protests or ideologically supported the trials, Karlekar says.
