The mob was led from the front by local religious and political leaders, who who denied any complicity in the crime despite their faces being caught on the CCTV.
A group of radical Islamists vandalised a temple, a grocery store and several houses belonging to members of the Hindu community in the Sahapara area of Lohagara, Narail, Bangladesh
The accused had visited Bangladesh illegally during last year's Durga Puja. He had boarded a boat, which took him to the other side of the Ichhamati river.