The interim government on Thursday strongly condemned Wednesday’s attack on ethnic minority students’ peaceful gathering in front of the NTCB in Dhaka.
A statement, issued on the day by the chief adviser’s press wing, also read that the government ordered an investigation and two people were arrested in this regard.
‘Other perpetrators are being identified and will soon be arrested. All miscreants will be brought to justice,’ the statement said.
‘Imbibed in the true spirits of the July mass uprising, the government reiterates in unequivocal terms that there is no place for mob violence, racial hatred, and bigotry in Bangladesh,’ it said.
The arrestees are Arif Al Khabir and Md Abbas, both members of Students For Solidarity, said Motijheel police station investigation inspector Mohaymenul Islam.
‘Police produced them before a magistrate court in Dhaka under section 54 and the court sent them to jail,’ he added.
The police station officer-in-charge Mesbah Uddin said that police arrested them Wednesday night.
‘Filing a case is under process,’ he said Thursday evening and added, ‘we are working to arrest other people involved in the attack.’
More than a dozen, mostly students belonging to different national minority communities, were injured in the attack by another group of students in front of the NCTB Bhaban on Wednesday over claim and counterclaim on the inclusion of the word ‘Adivasi’ in the textbooks.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board has recently removed graffiti carrying the word Adivasi from the back cover of the Bangla grammar book for Classes IX and X, following a demand from the Students for Sovereignty.
Those demonstrating under the banner of Students for Sovereignty, an organisation created after the July-August mass uprising and claimed to be Dhaka University students, twice attacked the group protesting the removal under the banner of Sangkhubdhho Adivasi Chhatra-Janata in police presence.
