Chaos At Bangladesh High Commission As VHP, Bajrang Dal Protesters Clash With Police
New Delhi : A massive protest by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other Hindu organisations, including the Bajrang Dal, took place outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi over the mob lynching of a Hindu. Security was tightened outside the Mission in anticipation of the protest. The area was fortified with three layers of barricades and with an additional deployment of 15,000 police and paramilitary forces.
Police struggled to contain hundreds of demonstrators as they toppled barricades, raised slogans against the Bangladesh government and displayed banners and placards, with some reading Hindu rakt ki ek ek boond ka hisaab chahiye (each drop of a Hindu’s blood must be accounted for). DTC buses were parked in an attempt to stop the protesters from moving forward. According to a senior police officer, the personnel managed to hold the demonstrators about 800 metres from the High Commission.
A protester at the site said, “A Hindu man was brutally assaulted and killed. We are requesting our government to take strict action against those who are behind the killing. We are also protesting that even the Bangladesh Police must take strict action against those who are behind the killing.
On December 18, Dipu Das, a 25-year-old garment factory worker accused of blasphemy, was forced to resign by his supervisors, who then handed him over to a mob. He was then brutally assaulted, following which the mob killed him, hung his body on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, and set fire to it.
