New Delhi: Bangladesh authorities have imposed a Section 144 banning public gathering at Hathazari, Bangladesh after several Hindu temples were vandalised and torched.

According to media reports, religious bigots of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir incited the vandalism and arson of the temples from Thursday evening to Friday noon.

The report states that the tensions started after reports of a mosque being attacked.

The leaders of the Hindu minority there have blamed the 'indifference' of the administration for the situation.



On Friday, another group of people took to the Chittagong-Rangamati road blocking traffic around 11am. They also offered their Friday prayers on the road, the report said.

Alleging that a mosque had been hurled with brick bats from a procession of Loknath Sebashram on Thursday morning , the blockaders demanded arrest of those linked with 'hurling brick bats on the mosque'.