UP chairman held over temple attacks

Police yesterday arrested a newly-elected union parishad chairman in a case filed in connection with attacks on two temples in Nargun union of Sadar upazila.

The arrestee is Poigam Ali, chairman of Nargun union.

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Mashiur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said criminals swooped on Pokati Durga Temple and nearby Kali Temple in the early hours of yesterday.

They then set fire to a Kali idol and a Durga idol.

Police asked the chairman to come to the police station in the afternoon and arrested him after a case was filed in this connection.

Superintendent of Police in Thakurgaon Farhat Ahmed visited the temples.