Chattogram, Nov 26 (UNI) A lawyer was killed on Wednesday during a clash after arrested Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari was denied bail by a court in this port city of Bangladesh.
Following the denial of the bail, his followers clashed with lawyers and law enforcers in the afternoon, Prothom Alo reported.
The president of Chattogram lawyers association, Najim Uddin, told Prothom Alo that the demonstrators hacked the lawyer to death near his chamber.
The deceased is Saiful Islam alias Alif, 35, an assistant public prosecutor and son of Jamal Uddin from Chunti of Lohagara, the report said.
Physicians pronounced him dead around 4:30 pm when he was taken to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH).
Eight other people are receiving treatment at the hospital for their injuries sustained during the clash. The injured include Sribash Das, Sharku Das, Chhoton, Sujit Ghosh, Utpal Ghosh, and Enamul Haque, while another critically injured individual remains unidentified. Meanwhile, the General Hospital of the city provided first aid to 19 more injured people.
The Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, also the spokesperson of Sammilito Sanatani Jagaran Jote, was arrested on charge of sedition on Tuesday.
He was denied bail by a court here around noon . When he was being taken to the prison from the court, his followers blocked the prison van, and started demonstrating there.
The prison van could not leave the court premises despite combined efforts of the police, BGB, and army men to clear its way. Around 2- 45 p.m., they exploded sound grenades, fired tear gas shells, and charged batons to disperse the demonstrators. It led to spells of chase and counter chase between the two sides.
