Police in finally arrested two vandal Qwmi students the culprits into the vandalism of the sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia. Both are students of Madrasa Ibn Masud (R :), a Qawmi educational institution in Jugia area of ​​Kushtia.

Police also arrested two teachers of the madrassa for helping the students from the madrassa to flee after they committed the misdeed.

The two students directly took part in the work of breaking the sculpture.

Kushtia Police made the remarks at a written press briefing on the Kushtia police line.

According to the statement, the two arrested students were Abu Bakar Mithun, 14, and Sabuj Islam Nahid, 14. The teachers are Alamin, 33 and Yusuf, 38.

Among them, Bakr and Nahid directly took part in the demolition of the sculpture.

On Friday night, the right hand, whole face and part of the left hand of the Bangabandhu sculpture under construction at the intersection of Panch Rastar in Kushtia Municipality were broken.

The SP said police went to investigation taking CCTV footage installed on the streets, including a bank and a bank’s first track booth at the intersection. Police identified the two vandals.
The Video footage shows that it was clock at 2:16 am. Hanging bags on the backs of one of the two men wearing beard-hats and pajamas-Punjabi. The two of them climbed the bamboo on the sculpture of Bangabandhu under construction and smashed the sculpture with an iron rod in their hands at random.

Within a minute, the sculpture was smashed and they left unharmed.

Police started investigation after the incident. Using all the intelligence sources, the police found the culprits within 24 hours.

Police said they first arrested two brothers, Abdur Rahman and Abdullah, from Moshan Bazar area of ​​ Mirpur Upazila in the district on the basis of a mobile phone call on Saturday afternoon. Both of them are students of that Qwami madrasa.

Police found the sculptor vandals from these two brothers. Police then raided the madrasa on Saturday evening. When they could not be found in the madrasa, the police talked to the madrasa authorities and found the two teachers. The teachers, at one stage of the interrogation told that when the two students braking the sculpture returned to the madrasa and informed them of the incident, they sent them home on Saturday morning.

Police later arrested Nahid from Golabaria in Philipnagar in Daulatpur upazila of their respective home districts and Bakar from Shingpur in Mirpur upazila.

During interrogation, the two said that they were inspired by the anti-sculpture statements of Maulana Mamunul Haque and Maulana Faizul Haque. They both deal with their confidence and decided to break the sculpture.

They said that on that night they came out of the madrasa secretly, broke the sculpture and went back to the madrasa.

Police have filed a case under the Special Powers Act of 1984 in this regard.
They will be taken to court today, police said.