Hurting Religious Sentiments A Criminal Offence: Top Cop
Bangladesh police have asked secular bloggers not to “cross the limit“ while writing on religious issues, even as authorities failed to make any headway in the brutal murder of a fourth blogger who hacked to death by suspected al-Qaida-linked Islamists. “Do not cross the limit.Do not hurt anyone's religious belief,“ inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque said.
The “freethinkers“ should keep in mind that hurting someone's religious sentiment is a criminal offence, Bdnews quoted Hoque as saying. On the killing of blogger Niloy Chakrabarty Neel, Hoque said police were investigating it “with top priority“. Neel was hacked to death by four assailants inside his flat in the capital's Goran area on Friday .
He is the fourth blogger to have been killed this year.Hours after the gruesome attack, Ansar-Al-Islam, the Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent, had claimed responsibility for killing 40-year-old Neel, terming him an enemy of Allah but police said involvement of the banned outfit cannot be confirmed yet.
Meanwhile, a FBI team met detectives in Dhaka on Sunday . The FBI team wanted to share their technical expertise with local detectives in the investigation, deputy commissioner (detective branch) Mahbub Alam of Dhaka police said.
Ever since the murder of Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Neel, security concerns of other bloggers in the terror hitlist have increased. Londonbased Bangladeshi blogger Sushanta Das Gupta met up with the Metropolitan Police Service to express his concern.
As part of the `target hardening advice', Dasgupta has now entered an agreement with the police stating that he will not write blogs `if this is encouraging contact from who may threaten you or take exception to your views' and remove his facebook profile, too.
Another Bangladeshi blogger Subhajit Bhowmik, 24, who was in Banglalore when his name figured in the terror hitlist in March 2013, shifted to Australia a few weeks before Niloy's death.
“My parents came to know about it from the newspapers.So, they suggested I stay back in India for few days,“ he said.
