Two cases, one over the allegation of rape of a class VII student of Tripura community and the other for obstructing government officials in discharging their duties and assaulting them, were filed with Sadar police station in Khagrachari Tuesday night.
Besides, a four-member investigation committee was formed to investigate the recent violence in Khagrachari triggered by the death of Khagrachhari Technical School and College teacher Abul Hasnat Mohammad Sohel Rana.
Sohel Rana was beaten to death on rape allegations on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the district administration lifted Section 144 from the municipality area and Sadar upazila Wednesday afternoon, the 抖阴精品 correspondent in Khagrachari reported.
The case over the rape of the minor Tripura girl and another for assault on government personnel were filed with Khagrachari Sadar police station Tuesday night, said Abdul Baten, officer-in-charge of the police station.
The OC, however, did not disclose any further information about the cases.
Abul Hasnat Mohammad Sohel Rana was beaten to death on Tuesday allegedly for raping the Tripura girl. The incident triggered fresh sectarian violence between the Bengalis and the national minority communities in Khagrachari town which left over a dozen injured.
Khagrachari deputy commissioner Md Shahiduzzaman said that they formed a four-member investigation committee led by the Khagrachari additional district magistrate to investigate the violence.
Senior officials of the administration, including Shahiduzzaman and Khagrachari superintendent of police Arefin Jewel, visited Khagrachari Bazar and the affected areas on Wednesday morning.
At least 32 businesses at Mahjanpara and at least 35 businesses at Pankhaiyapara were set on fire after Bengalis allegedly attacked national minority communities in Khagrachari town on Tuesday.
Bengalis looted and vandalised the goods at their shops, the affected people alleged.
They also alleged that Buddha statues were vandalised and set on fire.
Meanwhile, national minority youths and students in Dhaka protested at the alleged rape of the minor girl and using the incident for sectarian attacks on national minority people.
A group of youths under the banner of 鈥極ppressed students of the hills鈥� demanded exemplary punishments for those involved in Tuesday鈥檚 vandalism and arson attacks in Khagrachari.
Another group, under the banner 鈥楶rotesting students of the hills鈥�, demanded justice for the four national minority people killed in sectarian violence on September 19 and 20 in Khagrachari and Rangamati.
Police and witnesses said that a group of 10 to 15 national minority youths attacked the accused teacher, Sohel Rana, in the school鈥檚 office in the presence of police, after they had learned about the rape incident on Tuesday.
He was taken to Khagrachari Sadar Hospital, where on-duty doctors declared him dead on arrival.
On September 19, sectarian violence erupted in Dighinala upazila in the district, following the death of a Bengali youth, Mohammad Mamun, after a rumour spread in the area that he was beaten to death by national minority people in Khagrachari town on September 18.
The violence soon spread to Khagrachari town on the same day and to Rangamati the next day on September 20. The violence killed four national minority people in the two hill districts.
