GAZIPUR, BANGLADESH, February 26, 2014 (The Daily Star): Criminals vandalized the murthis (Deities) of a Hindu temple at Bathania Chala of Kaliakoir in Gazipur late Tuesday night and left a note. Dilip Kumar, a member of Sarbojanin Temple Committee, said miscreants desecrated all the murthis in the temple, including the Durga, Laxmi, Saraswati, Kartik, Ganesh and Asur. All the damaged murthis were dumped in a field near the temple. The thugs also left notes threatening the Hindus to stop worshipping murthis or face bomb attacks. One read: “Stop statue worship. Next here worship we will cast bomb or all of you accept Islam else go to India.”
General secretary of the temple committee Surja Mohan Sarker said they left the temple about 7:30 pm on Tuesday night. But in the following morning they found that all the murthis have been vandalized. A case has been filed with Kaliakoir Police Station in this regard. On February 10, miscreants damaged two murthis at the house of Nepal Chandra Barman in Gachgari area of the upazila.