Khagrachhari district administration has shaped a four-member investigation committee to compare the recent violence following the lynching of a college trainer yesterday afternoon (1 October) over allegations of sexually assaulting a scholar.
The committee will seemingly be headed by Roznil Shahid Chowdhury, the extra district Justice of the Peace of Khagrachhari.
In the wake of the violence, authorities get enforced an indefinite Piece-144, limiting public gatherings within the district headquarters and surrounding municipal areas to forestall additional clashes.
Two separate cases get also been filed in incidents inspiring the rape of a seventh-grade scholar at Khagrachhari Technical College and School and obstructing authorities work, and assaulting officers.
Alternatively, no case has yet been filed regarding the killing of the college trainer Abul Hasnat Muhammad Sohel Rana.
Senior officers of the administration inspected the Khagrachhari market and diverse affected areas on the original time.
“We can demand the public now to no longer grab the guidelines into their get fingers. The family of the deceased will file a case,” said Mohammad Arefin Jewel, superintendent of police of Khagrachhari.
Mohammad Shahiduzzaman, deputy commissioner of Khagrachhari, said, “Now we get already shaped an investigation committee. The enforcement of Piece-144 will continue except the divulge normalises.”
Meanwhile, stress continues to grip Khagrachhari since the mob killing of Sohel Rana, a trainer at Khagrachhari Technical College and School.
What began as a direct instant spiralled into violence, with experiences rising that on the least 20 corporations within the town’s Pankhaiyapara and Mahajanpara neighbourhoods were vandalised and looted.
Most of the affected shops, which consist of dresses shops, elegance parlours, and meals shops, are reportedly owned by contributors of the ethnic minority neighborhood. Even a non-public health center didn’t earn away the destruction.
The Khagrachhari district stays below heavy security, with army patrols and additional police forces deployed to retain notify.
Regardless that some lengthy-distance buses resumed provider this morning, native roads live largely abandoned, with handiest a handful of autos braving the streets, experiences UNB.
The violence traces again to allegations against Sohel Rana, who had previously been jailed in 2021 following a the same accusation of raping a scholar.
Regardless that he used to be acquitted in that case, the novel allegations ended in public outrage, culminating in Tuesday’s deadly assault.
