Bangladesh News: Dozens of members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), who were trying to enter India with valid travel documents, were sent back by Bangladeshi immigration police at the Benapole border on Sunday. This information was given in a media report.
The ‘Daily Star’ newspaper quoted Imtiaz Ahsanul Qadir Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Benapole immigration police, as saying, “We consulted the special branch of the police and received instructions from higher authorities not to allow them (to cross the border) Go.”
‘There was no specific government permission’
Imtiaz Ahsanul Qadir Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of the Benapole immigration police, said the ISKCON members reportedly had valid passports and visas, but did not have the specific government permission required to travel. “They cannot proceed without such approval,” he said.
A member of ISKCON gave information
54 members, including devotees from different districts, reached the check post on Saturday night and Sunday morning. However, after waiting for hours for permission, he was told that his visit was not authorized. Saurabh Tapandar Cheli, an ISKCON member, said, “We had set out to attend a religious function in India, but immigration officials stopped us, citing lack of government permission.”
Indian youth attacked
Amid reports of attacks on Hindus and other minorities in neighboring Bangladesh, a youth from Kolkata has claimed that when unknown people in Dhaka came to know that he was an Indian Hindu, they beat him up. Sayan Ghosh, 22, a resident of Belgharia area on the northern edge of the West Bengal capital, had gone to Bangladesh on November 23 and stayed at a friend’s place. There the family treated him like their own son.
Ghosh told PTI on Sunday, ‘However, late in the evening of November 26, when I and my friend went out for a walk, a group of four-five youths surrounded me at a distance of about 70 meters from my friend’s house. They asked me my identity. When I told them that I was from India and a Hindu, they started kicking and punching me and even attacked my friend who tried to save me.
