The police are yet to arrest anyone in the cases filed over the killing of four national minority people and vandalism during the recent聽 in the hill districts of Khagrachari and Rangamati.
Three murder cases were filed with Dighinala, Khagrachari and Rangamati police stations in connection with the murders, and a case was filed with Kotwali Police Station in Rangamati over vandalism during the violence on September 19 and September 20.
Khagrachari Police Station officer-in-charge Abdul Baten Mridha on Thursday said that the investigation was going on to arrest the assailants involved in the murders of Junan Chakma and Rubel Tripura, who were shot dead in Khagrachari district town early September 20.
鈥楶olice filed the case against unidentified assailants as families did not file any case,鈥� he said.
Another person named Dhana Ranjan Chakma, 60,聽 was killed during the violence at Dighinala in Khagrachari district.
Dighinala Police Station officer-in-charge Mohammad Zakaria on Thursday said that they were yet to identify the culprits involved in Dhana Ranjan. 鈥楴one was arrested so far.鈥�
The violence occurred after Bengalis brought out a procession protesting at Mohamamd Mamun鈥檚 murder in Kgagurachari district town that triggered Bengalis鈥� attacks on ethnic minority houses and businesses at Dighinala.
Mamun鈥檚 wife filed a case with Khagrachari police station against three Bengali people- a Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist and two Awami League leaders.
OC Mohammad Zakaria said, 鈥楴o one has been arrested so far in the case of killing Mamun. We are trying to arrest the assailants.鈥�
The violence spread from Khagrachari to Rangamati the next day on September 20, which saw another ethnic youth, Anik Kumar Chakma, killed.
Rangamati police claimed that Anik鈥檚 father Adar Sen Chakma filed a case with Kotwali Police Station on September 21.
The Rangamati additional superintendent of police for crime and operations, Mohammed Shah Imran, said that police were working to identify the assailants.
Asked about the video circulated on social media where culprits were seen beating Anik, he said, 鈥榃e got the video. We are trying to identify them.鈥�
He said that the culprits would be arrested soon.
Deceased Anik鈥檚 father Adar Sen Chakma claimed that he did not file any case over his son鈥檚 murder.
鈥業 am thinking of filing a case within a few days,鈥� he said.
Rangamati district additional SP Mohammed Shah Imran also said that no one was arrested in the case filed over vandalism during the sectarian violence in Rangamati on September 20.
Besides the killing of four national minority men, many houses and businesses, and at least three Buddhist temples were vandalised and set on fire during the violence.
