A case was filed with the Shyamnagar police station on Saturday over the incident of theft of goddess crown, gifted by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, at Jeshoreshwari Temple in Satkhira鈥檚 Shyamnagar on Thursday.
Detective Branch arrested four people, including two women in the afternoon in the case filed by the temple鈥檚 priest Jyoti Prokash in the morning.
The arrested are Rekha Sarakar, 45, Apurba Kumar Saha, 46, Sanjay Biswas, 37, and Parul Biswas, 44.
All of the arrested are residents of Shyamnagar upazila.
The district DB police sub-inspector Anisur Rahman said that they arrested four people over stealing the goddess crown.
鈥榃e are interrogating them in custody,鈥� Anisur added.
The Ministry of External Affairs in India, meanwhile, in a statement on Saturday expressed serious concern over the attack on a puja mandap at Tanti Bazar in Dhaka and the theft at the revered Jeshoreshwari Kali temple in Satkhira.聽
On Friday, the Indian high commission in Dhaka, in a formal message urged Bangladesh to investigate the theft, take action against perpetrators and recover the crown gifted by Modi during his visit in 2021.
According to the temple authority, priest Dilip Mukherjee left the temple after completing the day鈥檚 worship at about 2:00pm on Thursday.
Shortly afterwards, a member of temple鈥檚 cleaning staff entered to clean the premises and later, she noticed that the crown was missing from the deity鈥檚 head.
In a press release on Saturday, Satkhira district superintendent of police Mohammad Monirul Islam said that unidentified people had stolen the crown between 2:10pm and 2:49pm on Thursday.聽
The SP said that the temple was established in 1580.
Modi had visited Jeshoreshwari Temple on March 27, 2021, as part of his trip to Bangladesh and placed the crown on the head of the deity.
