Hefajat Mayhem 2013: Govt moves to resume probe

The government is resuming the long-stalled investigations into cases filed over the mayhem by thousands of Hefajat activists in the capital and elsewhere in May 2013. The move comes amid threats by Hefajat-e-Islam leaders of pulling down all sculptures in the country. "The cases remained pending for quite a long time. We have to finish them," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan