Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus on Saturday condemned attacks on the minority communities in the violence-hit nation, terming them as "heinous", and urged the youth to protect all Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist families from harm.

Members of minority communities in Bangladesh faced at least 205 incidents of attacks in 52 districts since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5, according to two Hindu organisations -- Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council and the Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad -- in the country.

Thousands of Bangladeshi Hindus have been trying to flee to neighbouring India to escape the violence.

Bangladesh’s Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan and five other judges of the apex Appellate Division on Saturday tendered their resignation, five days after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s regime amid massive street protests and students marching towards the apex court demanding a revamp of the judiciary.

The 65-year-old top judge revealed his decision around 1 pm after protesters of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement gathered at the apex court premises. The students had issued an ultimatum to him and the judges of the Appellate Division to resign by 1 pm “I feel it is necessary to share some special news with you. Our chief justice resigned a few minutes back. His resignation letter has already reached the law ministry,” law adviser, equivalent to the minister of the newly-installed interim government, Prof Asif Nazrul said in a Facebook video message.

Nazrul added that the resignation letter would be sent to President Mohammad Shahabuddin “without delay for taking necessary measures” and he was expecting the process to be completed very soon.

Hours after his announcement, five other judges of the apex court tendered their resignation to the president through the law ministry, Supreme Court’s Registrar General Aziz Ahmed Bhuiyan told newsmen.

In the wake of unrest in Bangladesh, the lone Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Assam’s Karimganj District with the neighbouring country has been closed and trade has been suspended, officials said on Saturday.

Mridul Yadav, the District Commissioner of Karimganj, told IANS, “The Integrated Check Post (ICP) is situated in Sutarkandi area, 15 kms from the district headquarters. It was shut down five days ago, and all export-import temporarily halted. We have received orders only to allow Indian passport holders to cross over and come to India.”

The official said that after the unrest broke out in Bangladesh, at least 60 students left the neighbouring country and returned to India through Karimganj District’s Sutarkandi point.

According to Yadav, security measures have been heightened along the Bangladesh border in the district.

Karimganj shares a 93-km-long boundary with Bangladesh, and the district headquarters are separated from Bangladesh by the Kushiyara River.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that there was some uncertainty in India’s textiles and garments sector following the political turmoil in Bangladesh but it was too early to say what the overall impact on the economy would be.

She said that Indian businessmen have made investments in Bangladesh in good faith and these resulted in increasing exports and creating more jobs in Bangladesh.

“I hope these investments which have benefited Bangladesh remain safe,” she remarked.

India has a policy of allowing liberal imports from low-income countries and this has also helped to spur growth in the Bangladesh economy, she added.

Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus has appealed for religious unity after embracing the weeping mother of a student shot dead by police. Nobel laureate Yunus, 84, told reporters, "Our responsibility is to build a new Bangladesh." He called for calm during a visit to the northern city of Rangpur by invoking the memory of Abu Sayeed, the first student killed during last month's unrest. "Don't differentiate by religion", he said.

Several reprisal attacks against the country's Hindu minority since autocratic ex-premier Hasina's toppling have caused alarm.

A right-wing group today held demonstrations outside the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh in Guwahati against the alleged attack on minorities, particularly Hindus, after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government. They submitted an eight-point charter demanding the caretaker government in Bangladesh to take steps to immediately stop the attack on minorities in the wake of hundreds of people from the minority communities flocking to the border in North Bengal.

The Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Obaidul Hassan, resigned today following massive protests by students who surrounded the Supreme Court. Mr Hassan agreed to resign "in principle" after an ultimatum to do so from protesters. He was appointed to helm the Supreme Court last year and is seen as a loyalist to ousted premier Sheikh Hasina.

Obaidul Hassan, the chief justice of Bangladesh's Supreme Court, has resigned after an ultimatum to do so from protesters. He was appointed to helm the Supreme Court last year and is seen as a loyalist to ousted premier Sheikh Hasina. Earlier in the day, he was told to step down by protesters who gathered outside the court in the capital Dhaka.