Three fresh cases have been filed on Monday in connection with the attacks on the Ahmadiyya minority community.
The Ahmadiyya children are, however, yet to return to school after the attacks on March 3.
Panchagarh police superintendent SM Sirajul Huda said that 190 people, including three new persons suspected of involvement in attacks on Ahmadiyyas, were arrested as of Sunday in a joint drive by the police and the Rapid Action Battalion in 23 cases.
So far, 11,000 people, mostly unnamed, have been accused for attacks on Ahmadiyyas by the Islamists.
Of the cases, four are under the Special Powers Act, one is under the Digital Security Act, one is a murder case, and the rest 17 are criminal cases, said Sirajul.
Ahmad Tabsir, a spokesperson for the Ahmadiyyas, said that they were still gripped by fear, insecurity and panic and many were yet to return to their areas as their houses were completely wrecked.
Tabsir requested the police not to indiscriminately arrest in which innocent people would get victimised.
Many of the attackers are known and they should be arrested. None of the attackers should be spared, Tabsir said.
The district education officer, Md Shahin Akter, visited the devastated Benghari High School and distributed new books among children of Ahmadiyya community on Monday.
The school principal, Abdul Barik, said that they were trying to resume classes and bring the students back.
On March 3, two people were killed, and dozen others, including police personnel, were injured as the Islamists torched and vandalised scores of Ahmadiyya houses and clashed with law enforcers in the district town and adjacent areas over organising a jalsa, an annual congregation of the Ahmadiyya community.
Ahmad Tabsir, a spokesperson for the Ahmadiyyas, said that more than 179 Ahmadiyya families were affected while 180 community members received injuries.
He added that property worth some Tk 25 crore had been damaged in six villages inhabited by Ahmadiyyas.
Ahmadiyyas alleged that more than 150 houses were torched and hundred others were robbed and vandalised during the attacks.
This NEWS originally published in Dhaka based News Paper The New Age.
