Bangladesh imam who incited mob to lynch Dipu held

DHAKA: Bangladesh constabulary person arrested the main accused - an imam of a mosque - successful the Dec 18 lynching of Hindu garment mill idiosyncratic Dipu Chandra Das connected blasphemy allegations successful Mymensingh, reports Ahsan Tasnim. Yasin Arafat (25), who was arrested from Sarulia nether Dhaka's Demra constabulary presumption area, had "supervised the onslaught connected Dipu". He had incited the mob and led it to the garment mill were Dipu worked, constabulary said Wednesday. Dipu was forced to resign, pushed retired of his workplace and handed implicit to the mob that bushed him to death.Bangladesh asks 3 of 5 missions successful India to support visa sections closed for present The Muhammed Yunus-led interim govt connected Thursday said it had asked Bangladesh's 3 cardinal diplomatic missions successful India to support their visa sections closed for the "time being" due to the fact that of "security reasons".

With this, Dhaka, which did not elaborate connected the reasons, has sought to further strain the tense relations betwixt the 2 neighbours. Though overseas affairs advisor Md Touhid Hossain did not notation the names of the missions, a diplomatic root said these were the Bangladesh precocious committee successful New Delhi, lawman precocious commissi-on successful Kolkata and Bangladesh adjunct precocious committee successful Agartala. There are Bangladesh missions stationed successful Mumbai and Chennai, too.

India, however, has kept its diplomatic facilities open, including its precocious committee successful Dhaka and 5 adjunct precocious commissions, to process visa applications - particularly of those seeking aesculapian attraction - contempt monolithic protests adjacent these establishments aft anti-India extremist person Sharif Osman Hadi was changeable connected Dec 12 successful the Bangladesh superior and died six days later. "We person asked our 3 missions to support their visa sections closed for the clip being.

It's a information issue," Hossain said portion responding to a question astatine a property briefing successful the ministry of overseas affairs. Asked astir Bangladesh's "potential interest" successful procuring the JF-17 Thunder combatant craft from Pakistan, the overseas advisor said, "I can't speech astir this today. Talks are underway. You volition cognize erstwhile things are finalised." Pakistan successful a connection connected Wednesday had claimed that "detailed discussions were held connected the imaginable procurement of JF-17 Thunder aircraft" betwixt the 2 nations successful Islamabad.