Dhaka:
Bangladesh’s authorities have ordered freezing for 30 days the financial institution accounts of 17 folks related to ISKCON, together with its former member Chinmoy Krishna Das arrested this week on sedition expenses, media reviews stated Friday.
The transfer comes after the Bangladesh High Court rejected a petition in search of a ban on International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), following the killing of a lawyer in a conflict between the Hindu chief’s supporters and safety personnel.
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) despatched these directives to totally different banks and monetary establishments on Thursday, suspending all varieties of transactions associated to those accounts for a month, newspaper Prothom Alo stated.
The monetary intelligence company below the central Bangladesh Bank requested the banks and monetary establishments to ship data, together with up to date transaction statements of accounts associated all companies owned by these 17 people, inside the subsequent three working days, it stated.
On October 30, a sedition case was filed in opposition to 19 folks, together with Das, at Chattogram’s Kotwali Police Station, accusing them of disrespecting Bangladesh’s nationwide flag in Chattogram’s New Market space throughout a rally of the Hindu neighborhood.
Das, a spokesperson for the Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatani Jagran Jote, was arrested from Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Monday for alleged sedition. He was denied bail and despatched to jail by a Chattogram court docket on Tuesday, triggering protests by his supporters.
On Tuesday, New Delhi expressed concern over the chief’s arrest and denial of bail, and requested Bangladesh to make sure the protection of Hindus and different minorities.
Ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina too has sought the priest’s launch. She additionally condemned the killing of the lawyer through the protests over his arrest.
ISKCON Bangladesh refuted allegations linking it to the lawyer’s killing, saying the claims have been baseless and a part of a malicious marketing campaign.
A spokesman of the legal professional common’s workplace stated a two-member High Court bench that declined to ban the ISKCON actions in Bangladesh additionally stated the state of affairs didn’t warrant the intervention of the (High) court docket “right now” because the State is finishing up its job. The Bench hoped that the federal government would stay cautious about defending the regulation and order state of affairs and the lives and properties of the folks of Bangladesh.
Hindus — the neighborhood constituted about 22 per cent of Bangladesh’s inhabitants through the 1971 Liberation War, now make up roughly 8 per cent – have been often reporting atrocities in opposition to their neighborhood members in numerous elements of Bangladesh.
There are additionally reviews of the rise of extremist teams such because the Jamaat-e-Islami and comparable ideological extremist wings.
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