The Ministry of External Affairs, India has made a discussion with Bangladeshi authorities on the issue of violence targeting Hindu families in Bangladesh's Comilla district and the matter is being investigated by the authorities there, said on Friday. Few Islamists vandalised several Hindu families and their house were set on fire in Bangladesh's Comilla district earlier this week over rumours about an alleged Facebook post defaming Islam.
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The Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava at an online media briefing, said India's High Commission and posts in Bangladesh are in close contact with local authorities in Bangladesh over the incident. "They have taken up this incident and we have been informed that the Bangladesh authorities have looked at this incident very seriously and the law enforcement authorities there are investigating the outbreak of violence". Indian authorities are vigilant to avoid any untoward disturbance informed Srivastava.
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The Hindu households were vandalised and then set on fire on Sunday. The violence brokes out after a France residing Bangladeshi man allegedly praised President Emmanuel Macron for his steps against "inhumane ideologies" after a teacher in Paris was decapitated for showing caricatures of the Prophet, said the Bangladeshi officials.
