The High Court (HC) on October 28 ordered the magistrates in six Districts to conduct separate judicial inquiries into the communal attacks on Hindu temples and Durga Puja venues carried out from October 13-18, reports Dhaka Tribune. Hearing a writ petition, the bench of Justice Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Mohamad Kamrul Hossain Mollah ordered the chief metropolitan magistrates and the chief judicial magistrates of Comilla, Feni, Noakhali, Chittagong, Chandpur and Rangpur to submit their reports within 60 days. The court also issued a rule asking the local administrations to explain in four weeks why their inaction and failure to protect Hindu citizens and their properties in the districts during the festival should not be declared illegal. Barrister Jyotimoy Barua stood for the petitioners and Attorney General AM Amin Uddin represented the state.