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Major attacks and case progress
RAMU MAYHEM
Sept 29-30, 2012
• Bigots vandalised and set fire to Buddhist temples and Buddhist households in Ramu and Ukhiya, after spreading rumour that the Facebook page of a local Buddhist youth was bearing a photo demeaning Islam.
• Eighteen cases were filed with three police stations in Cox’s Bazar.
• No trials have begun yet.
• Two writ petitions filed with the High Court are also still pending.
BONOGRAM VIOLENCE
Nov 2, 2013
• Mobs vandalised and torched houses, shops, temples of Hindu communities in three villages of Bonogram of Pabna, claiming that one Rajib Saha had maligned the Prophet (PBUH) on a Facebook page.
• Rajib’s father filed a case for the attack which is still pending with a Pabna court.
• Police also filed two cases -- one for attacking cops and another for maligning the Prophet (PBUH) using digital media; a cyber tribunal in Rajshahi last year pronounced the verdict in the second case.
NASIRNAGAR MAYHEM
Oct 30, 2016
• Zealots vandalised and looted over 100 Hindu homes and 17 temples in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria following announcements made from two rallies of Islamists over an alleged anti-Islam Facebook post from the account of one Rasraj Das.
• The zealots also set nine Hindu homes on fire on November 4, 5, 13 and 16.
• Rasraj, a fisherman, was freed in January 2017 after months of detention as police found evidence that his Facebook account was hacked or faked by someone else before the anti-religious post was uploaded from it.
• Eight cases were filed with Nasirnagar Police Station accusing some 2,000 unidentified people. Law enforcers submitted charge sheets in two cases.
CUMILLA VIOLENCE
Oct 13 last year
• A mob incited by a Facebook Live video attacked Nanua Dighir Par puja mandap in Cumilla after someone placed a copy of the Holy Quran at the temple.
• It was followed by a series of deadly attacks on Hindus across the country.
• Later, it was found through CCTV footage that a man named Iqbal Hossain placed the holy book at the mandap.
• A total of 12 cases were filed after the incident in Cumilla. Of those, six are now under investigation by the CID while Cumilla district police are investigating two others. CID submitted the charge sheet in one case. PBI is investigating four other cases and submitted the charge sheet in one.
SUNAMGANJ MAYHEM
March 17 last year
• Several hundred supporters of Hefajat-e Islam attacked, vandalised and looted at least 90 Hindu houses in Noagaon village over a Facebook post reportedly made by Jhumon Das, a resident of the village, criticising Hefajat leader Mamunul Haque.
• After the incident, two cases were filed with Shalla Police Station -- one filed by a villager and another by police. Both the cases are now under investigation.
• Jhumon’s mother lodged a case which is now being investigated by the CID.
• Jhumon, who was detained a day before the attack, was later sued in a case filed by police under Digital Security Act. He got bail in September. The case is now under trial at a cyber tribunal in Sylhet.