Perhaps there was a deliberate provocation behind keeping a copy of the Quran at a temple in Cumilla, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday.
“Everything was done in a planned way. The man, who had kept the Quran at the temple, might have done it as per others’ instruction…there might be provocation behind it. We’ll be able to know the motive after his arrest,” the home minister said after a meeting at the Bangladesh Secretariat.
“All the incidents (of communal violence) including that of Cumilla were carried out separately with a motive. There’s no panic among people now. Everything is under control,” he added.
He said after examining the CCTV footage of the surrounding area it has been ascertained that the man who kept the holy Quran at the Cumilla temple took it from a mosque.
“The man had been to Mazar mosque thrice that night. It was clear from the CCTV footage that the man took the Quran from the mosque to keep it at the temple,” he said.
