Two Indian Sikhs were stabbed late Monday by unidentified assailants in Nunachhara area of Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Sitakunda, Chittagong.
Two suspected assailants were arrested by the police after a case was filed in this regard.
Following the incident, the wounded Sikhs Jogendra Shil Darar, 55, and Amar Jeet Singh, 45 were given primary treatment in a local hospital of Mirsarai upazila. Later they were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the capital and released around 11:45am yesterday.
Police sources said a group of 40 Sikhs came to Chittagong from Punjab province of India to attend the 546th birthday of their religious leader Guru Nanak Devji on Monday.
After the attending the programme, the group divided and got in four micro-buses to return to Dhaka. Around 11:45pm on Monday, one of the micro-bus stopped near Nunachhara as the vehicle was having problems.
When the driver of the micro-bus came out to repair the vehicle, a group of 10-15 masked men swooped on them with sharp weapons and robbed Rs22,000 and mobile phones from the Sikhs, Officer-in-Charge of Sitakunda police station Iftekhar Hasan said.
After the attack, Ashim Kumar Malakar, the micro-bus driver, filed a case early yesterday with Sitakunda police in this connection.
Police later arrested two people from Nunachhara area for their alleged involvement with the robbery. However, the OC did not disclose the identity of the arrested for the sake of investigation. He only said that the two belonged to a gang of robbers who had been operating in the area for a long time.
Meanwhile, the two injured were later taken to a guest room in Gurdwara Nanak Shahi in Dhaka University premises. The media was not allowed to talk to them.
When contacted, the authorities of the Gurdwara Nanak Shahi said they will hold a meeting in this regard and then make a official statement.