Cops closed in Satkhira
Two police officers were closed on charge of failing to maintain law and order situation in Kaliganj upazila yesterday. The accused are Satkhira police superintendent Habibur Rahman Khan and Syed Farid Uddin, officer in-charge of Kaliganj police station. Additional police superintendent Joydev Chowdhury said hundreds of unknown people torched at least seven houses and looted 10 others of Hindu community on Sunday night, protesting a remark on prophet Hazrat Mohammad (SM) in a drama staged by the students of Fatehpur High School on the occasion of Independence Day. Later, the authorities closed the duo as they failed to maintain law and order situation in the area, the ASP added. Earlier, two houses were set on fire, four houses and the school ransacked at Fatehpur village on Saturday over the same issue.
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