Police investigators said they have so far arrested twelve people over the killing of two construction workers by villagers on suspicion of setting fire to a Hindu temple at Madhukhali upazila of Faridpur on April 18.
Superintendent of police Mohammad Morshed Alam at Faridpur said on Wednesday that they have so far arrested 12 suspects in connection with the killings.
Of them, eight were arrested on Tuesday and sent to jail by the court on Wednesday while four others were arrested earlier.
The eight arrested were Ujjal Kumar Mitra, 33, Biswajit Mallik, 52, Kanak Biswas, 27, Tapan Kumar Mondol, 40, Anup Roy, 31, Tutul Chandra Mondol, 30, Prasenjit Sarkar, 20, and Sujoy Biswas, 16.
The officials said that four others 鈥� Binoy Saha, 60, Ujjal Kumar Biswas, 41, Govind Sarkar, 28, and Anay Bhaduri, 19 鈥� were arrested and sent to court in raids from April 19 to 22.
Two construction workers, both siblings, were killed and five others were injured by a group of people in a Hindu dominated area on suspicion that the construction workers could have set fire to a Hindu temple in Dumain Union in Madhukhali upazila on April 18.
Following the incident, Tapati Rani Mandal, 47, a resident of the area, accused unnamed people of setting fire to the temple. Shahjahan Khan, the father of the deceased, filed the murder case accusing unnamed people.
Madhukhali police station sub-inspector Shankar Bala filed the other case accusing 31 named and many other unnamed people of attacking 11 policemen and obstruction of government duty, arson and damage to public property.
Shariful Islam, public relations officer of the Border Guard Bangladesh headquarters, on Wednesday said their four platoons of personnel have been deployed to maintain law and order in Baliakandi and Baghate Bazar and Madhukhali in Faridpur.
