DHAKA: (Apr 22) Bangladesh has rejected New Delhi’s charge that the recent killing of a Hindu leader was part of a “pattern of systematic persecution” of minorities in that country.
Body of Hindu community leader Bhabesh Chandra Roy, 58, a resident of Basudebpur village of Dinajpur district in north Bangladesh, was recovered on Thursday night. His son has claimed Roy was allegedly abducted from his home in the village, about 330 kilometres northwest of Dhaka, and beaten to death.
“It is unfortunate that the death of Mr Bhabesh Chandra Roy has been described as part of a ‘pattern of systematic persecution’ of Hindu minorities under the interim government,” interim government chief Muhammad Yunus’ press secretary Shafiqul Alam told the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) news agency late Monday. PTI
