Some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men from Dhaka University (DU) Jagannath Hall vandalised two idols and shops at Ramna Kali Mandir in the city early yesterday over taking control of the shops.
Police arrested three BCL activists in this connection.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shahbagh Police Station Rezaul Karim said some 70 to 80 BCL activists of Utpal Shah group from the dormitory of the DU minority students, damaged two shops and heads of two idols inside the temple around 12:30am.
Hearing the incident, Shahbagh police rushed in and arrested Ananato Bhowmic, a first-year student of Sankskrita department and Prakash, a master’s student of the same department, and Rimon Biswas, a second year student of the Institute of Social Welfare and Research of DU.
Campus sources said activists of Utpal Shaha group ransacked the shops owned by BCL central committee leader Hemonta Bepari and his friend Bipul. Utpal is an organising secretary of the temple maintenance committee.
OC Rezaul said Utpal group launched the attack over a conflict between him and Pankaj over getting posts in the temple maintenance committee, setting up the shops there and spreading unilateral hegemony in the temple area ahead of Kali Puja.
