Police foil march on Pak High Commission

Police on Thursday prevented the 'Ganajagaran Mancha' procession from entering the diplomatic enclave, their second march towards the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka is as many days.

The Mancha is protesting a resolution that Pakistan National Assembly adopted on Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla’s hanging for his crimes against humanity in 1971 that include murder.

Correspondents from the spot said they had seen at least two of the marchers taken into the police van after a mêlée.

The Mancha came into existence after Molla got a life sentence in the war crimes trial, which many in Bangladesh felt was too lenient.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court later revised it to death penalty.

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