An Indian youth from Kolkata who had recently visited a friend in Bangladesh returned from that country with a visible scar of communal carnage on his face even as a fundamentalist mob caught hold of him on the streets of Dhaka and after extracting his identity (a Hindu from Kolkata) thrashed and badly injured him.

The law enforcers also would not help one bit --- "misleading and misguiding" him from one police station to the other for registering an FIR until a group of local politicians accompanied by some lawyers surfaced to advice him against such actions considering what might happen to the family members of his friends once he had gone back to India.

The incident took place in the midst of ongoing Islamist onslaught on religious minorities in Bangladesh.

"I was visiting a friend … when I was accosted on the street by some people who took me aside … wanted to know my name and religion … when I told them that I was an Indian and a Hindu … they started beating me up … they slashed me with a knife on the my face and then hit me with bricks on my head … I had given up home to live and return home … then they snatched my money and mobile phone," Sayan Ghosh from Belgharia I the northern fringes of Kolkata said.

His woes did not end there. "When I dialed the given 999 number the people on the other side started asking me all kinds of awkward questions as to why I had come to Bangladesh and who my friend was and my other credentials instead of helping me out … then I went to a local private hospital … but they would not treat me … they made me run from one hospital to the other … finally I was given some first aid at Dhaka Medical College after much request," he said.

"When I approached the police to register an FIR … they would take it … as I went about from one police station to another some local politicians along with some lawyers surfaced from nowhere advising me against lodging a police complaint saying that after I am gone to India they would harass the family members of my friend," Ghosh who still looked traumatized said.

Rina Saha (name changed) another woman from Faridpur whose husband is from India and who has been visiting her parents' place returned in a hurry as "my father asked me to do so as the situation is deteriorating in Dhaka and nearby areas … though Faridpur has gone incident free till now."

Meanwhile, nine more sadhus of International Society of Krishna Consciousness who were trying to enter India from Benapole border were prevented from doing so by the Bangladesh border guards, sources said adding 63 ISKCON monks had been prevented to come to India in the past two days by the Bangladesh authorities.