A Kushtia court has placed a local Jubo League leader and two others on a three-day remand each over the vandalism of a sculpture of Bagha Jatin, a revolutionary leader of the anti-British movement, on the campus of Kaya College in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia.
Kushtia Senior Judicial Magistrate Selina Khatun passed the order on Monday.
The accused are Anisur Rahman Anis, 35, Sabuj Hossain, 20, and Hridoy Ahmed, 20. They were all arrested in separate drives conducted throughout Friday night in Kushtia.
Late Thursday night, a group of miscreants vandalized parts of the nose and face of Bagha Jatin’s sculpture.
Then on Friday morning, Kushtia police, acting on a tip-off, arrested Kaya Union Jubo League President Anisur Rahman Anis, the mastermind of the incident.
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Police later arrested Hridoy Ahmed and Sabuj Hossain, two others involved in the incident.
Bagha Jatin was the principal leader of the Jugantar party which was the central association of revolutionary freedom fighters in Bengal.
He met the German crown prince in Calcutta before World War I and received a promise about arms supply.
He was born in 1879 in Kumarkhali, Kushtia, and died at the age of 35 in Balasore, India.
Previously, an under-construction sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was also vandalized in the district town on December 5.