Three arrested for harassing monk

Police yesterday arrested three persons in Jessore's Benapole for allegedly harassing a monk.

The three forced him to hurl abuse at Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, then took video footage of the incident and uploaded it on Facebook, said police.

The arrestees are Riazul Islam, 30, Amin Hossain, 24, and Toufiq Ahmed, 32.

The monk Gyan Mitra Bhikkhu, of Rangamati, returned to Bangladesh from India on Wednesday following treatment.

After entering the country, he went to a nearby store. “Suddenly few youths forcibly put me inside a vehicle.” The monk said they took him to an unknown place and videoed the incident.

The footage went viral on social networking sites on Thursday evening. It showed that anonymous persons were pressurising the monk to hurl abuse at Suu Kyi and those responsible for persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar.

Police filed a general diary and arrested the trio by tracing one of their Facebook ID, said OC Apurbo Hasan of Benapole Port Police Station. Of the arrestees, Amin is a student at a local college while the others are traders.