Eyewitness account to help arrest Jhenidah Hindu priest: Minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Friday said the killers of Jhenidah Hindu monastery attendant Shyama Nanda Das Babaji would be identified and arrested soon as there was an eyewitness to the incident. He came up with the remarks while talking to reporters at his Dhanmondi residence in the morning. The home minister also alleged that a vested quarter has resorted to the secret killings to create anarchy in the country. Dhaka, UNB News Agency Reported.

Three miscreants astride a motorcycle stabbed Shyama Nanda Das Babaji, 65, an attendant of Modhupur Kastsagra Radha Madan Gopal Moth at North Kastasagra village in Sadar upazila, to death early Friday. He was attacked while plucking flowers for worship by a road near the monastery around 5:30am. The incident took place three weeks after the killing of a Hindu priest, Anando Kumar Ganguly, 66, by unidentified miscreants in the same fashion in Karatipara area of Sadar upazila of the district on June 7.