INDIA: According to a police officer on Tuesday, seven members of a gang were arrested by police in the northern Indian state of Tripura and accused of breaking into the Bangladeshi consulate and causing property damage.
The action was taken just hours after Bangladesh, a country with a majority of Muslims, demanded that demonstrators who broke into the embassy be immediately dealt with for tearing down its main gate, damaging property, and desecration of the national flag.
Those arrested were part of demonstrations organised by the Hindu Sangharsha Samiti, a group that says it protects Hindu interests after Bangladesh arrested a Hindu religious leader, Chinmoy Krishna Das, last week.
“Around 50 of them broke into the property’s main gate and brought down the Bangladeshi flag post,” said district police officer Kiran Kumar K in west Tripura.
