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Ashram vandalised, looted in Dinajpur

Cops term it robbery; locals believe it's attack on Hindus

Our Correspondent, Dinajpur
Unidentified criminals attacked and vandalised a hundred-year-old ashram, a Hindu spiritual hermitage, at Garnurpur village of Dinajpur's Kaharol upazila in the early hours of yesterday.
The miscreants also looted valuables from the Shreenigomananda Sarswat Sebashram, home to 30 orphans and 10 spiritual elders, and beat up a minor orphan, triggeringpanicamongthe local Hindus.
Though police consider this as a robbery attempt, the ashram authority believes it was a communal attack.
Founded in 1992, the ashram, which runs on donations, also provides free medical services to the poor people of the area.
Witnesses say a group of 10 to 15 people wearing masks and equipped with sharp weapons stormed inside the ashram complex around 4:00am and broke into the diagnostic laboratory hall. They ransacked the room and took away a laptop and a microscope.
The miscreants also severely beat up a 14-year-old orphan named Budu Hasda when he panicked and started screaming.
The culprits then went to the prayer house inside the complex, ransacked it and looted some brass utensils.
They, however, fled the spot as other people inside the ashram woke up.
Nandadulal Chakraborty, the chief of the ashram, immediately informed Kaharol Police Station of the incident. However, the law enforcers did not show up before 8:00am Thursday, though the ashram was only half-an-hour's drive from the police station.
Talking to reporters, Nandadulal claimed that the attack was aimed at offending religious sentiments.
"They could leave the place after taking the laptop and utensils if it were a robbery. Instead, they got inside the prayer house and ransacked it, tarnishing the sanctity of the place," he said.
"1 do not think it was a robbery. There were many valuables they could take, but they only took a laptop and some utensils. They destroyed the sanctity of the temple by ransacking it," Ramani Kama Roy, a medical technologist of the ashram, told The Daily Star.
Dinajpur’s Deputy Commissioner Ahmed Shamim Al Razi and Superintendent of Police Ruhul Amin visited the ashram around 12:00 noon.
The district administration assured the panicked people that criminals must be arrested.
A local police official, seeking anonymity, told The Daily Star that they believed it was a robbery attempt, not a communal attack.
The ashram authority filed a case with Kaharol Police Station accusing 10-15 unnamed criminals. None, however, was arrested yet.