Most of the accused were residents of the city's Sebok Colony, a hub of cleanliness workers belonging to the Hindu community.

Fact-Check: A false post is circulating on social media platforms claiming arrested ISKON leader Chinmay Krishna Das's lawyer Saifullah Islam has died in the violence. However, this has been denied by the government authorities.

Several social media posts and reports by Indian news outlets claim that the lawyer defending former ISKCON priest Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari was hacked to death in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh stepped up security in the port city of Chittagong on Wednesday as police arrested six people in connection with the murder of a lawyer, who was killed during clashes following the arrest of a leader of the country's Hindu minority.

Lawyers in southeastern Bangladesh are boycotting courts to protest the killing of a colleague in a daylong violence over the arrest of a prominent minority Hindu leader.