Dhaka, Sept. 6 -- Police in Goalanda, Rajbari, have filed a case against around 3,500 unidentified individuals in connection with an attack on law enforcement officers during clashes at the shrine of Nurul Haque, commonly known as "Nural Pagla." Md Rakibul Islam, the chief of Goalanda Ghat Police Station, said the case was registered in the early hours of Saturday. The violence erupted Friday afternoon in Juron Mollapara, Ward 5 of Goalanda municipality, where the shrine is located.

Nurul Haque, who proclaimed himself Imam Mahdi, an end-times religious figure in Shia Islam, had recently died and was buried in a grave positioned slightly above ground level and styled similarly to the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam. This design provoked ...