80 ISKCON members held over acid attack on law enforcers' in Ctg

Joint forces arrested 80 members of ISKCON in connection with the attack on law enforcers and throwing acid at Hazari lane under Kotwali police station of Chattogram on Tuesday night.

The arrests were made in an overnight drive on Tuesday, said Lt Col Ferdous Ahmed at a press conference on Wednesday.

Locals said a trader of the lane uploaded a Facebook post on hardliner Hindus' organisation ISKCON. Outraged by it, followers of the ISKCON, mostly traders, staged demonstrations demanding justice of the accused, vandalised his shop and kept him confined to the shop.

Being informed, army and police personnel rushed to the spot and tried to rein in the protesters who allegedly attacked the law enforcers and threw acid and brickbats, leaving seven police and five army men injured, said Kotwali Police Station officer-in-charge Fazlur Rahman.

Besides, a policeman came under acid attack of acid, he said, adding that the injured cops were hospitalized.

Kazi Md Tarek Aziz, additional deputy commissioner (media) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, confirmed the acid attack saying that the agitators attacked army personnel when they were chasing them to bring the situation under control.