The Ministry of External Affairs has now come out to say that it rejects ‘misleading propaganda’ by Bangladeshi media about a protest that took place outside the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi on Sunday.
The protests had taken place over the killing of Dipu Chandra Das, a man from a Hindu minority in Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi media had reported that the Bangladeshi high commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah, was ‘threatened’ by a mob that gathered outside the High Commissioner’s building in Delhi on Saturday. They said that a ‘group of extremists’ under the ‘Akhand Hindu Rastra Sena’ gathered outside the building and shouted threats.
Bangladesh’s Press Minister in Delhi, Md. Faisal Mahmud, who spoke to Bangladeshi media said that the people ‘came in cars and stood at the gate’ and were ‘saying something in Hindi’. He said that the group demanded the high commissioner be arrested and said things like 'If you kill a Hindu there, we will kill all of you.'"
The MEA has now come out to say that the small group of protesters, about 20-25 youth, who gathered outside the High Commissioner's building were dispersed by police shortly after.
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also said that there was visual evidence for the events publicly available for all to see.
About 12 people have been arrested so far over the public lynching of the minority Hindu garment worker in Mymensingh.
All of the detainees have been handed over to the Bhaluk police station and will be questioned, according to an official who spoke to the Daily Star.
Dipu, 27, was beaten to death by a mob on Thursday over an alleged statement which “hurt religious sentiments’