Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hassan Mahmood Khandker said operations would continue until the criminals who carried out attacks on the minorities were arrested.
The police chief said this while visiting the victims of the minority community at Malopara of Chapatola village under Obhoynagar in Jessore on Tuesday.
He also assured the victims that the highest punishment awaited the criminals.
Condemning the attacks as “heinous acts,” the IGP said, “The people who fell victims of barbarities are not the minorities, rather the criminals who carried out such inhumane attacks on them are the minorities by number.”
During the visit, the police chief exchanged views with the victims and locals and distributed various materials among the victims.
At that time, he urged the people to come forward and stand beside the victims and resist any recurrence of such heinous acts.
Additional IGP and CHief of the Special Branch Zaved Patwari, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Mokhlesur Rahman, Khulna Range Deputy Inspector General of Police Moniruzzaman and different top ranking officials of the Police and Rab were among those who accompanied the IGP on the visit.
According to media reports, armed activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, torched and looted dozens of homes belonging to the Hindu community in the village under Jessore’s Obhoynagar upazila on the night after the parliamentary elections.
