It was the night of 27 March 1971 when Pakistani forces, along with their supporters encircled the temple and began firing cannons. The temple which stood the test of time for almost 600 years was blown away brick by brick by the theocratic forces. The temple priest Sreemath Swami Paramananda Giri remained in the temple during the onslaught, tightly holding the deity in his hands. The ruthless Pakistani Army did not spare him. In total 250 Hindu men, women and children living in the vicinity of the Kali Badi are said to have been massacred. US Senator Gordon Allott after visiting the site in the aftermath recounts, “There are no more Hindus in Ramna Kali Bari…I went to see it. Houses were still aflame and bodies were stacked at grotesque angles”. After the war ended in the victory of the Mukti Bahini - aided by the Indian forces, many hoped that the Sheikh Mujibur Rehman government would rebuild the temple and restore it to its former glory. The reaction by his government was hurtful for many Hindus after the government confiscated the temple land from the Hindu board under the Enemy Property Act. It was then handed over to the PWD which then in-turn gave it to the Dhaka club. The temple was neither rebuilt, nor was any memorial constructed in the honour of the slain Hindus. Despite the disappointment, the Hindus kept petitioning the Bangladeshi government to allow them to resume prayers at the temple land. The efforts continued for almost three decades when in 2000 the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League finally relented. This resulted in the Hindu community erecting a makeshift pandal every year (where the temple stood) for Kali Puja and then dismantling it soon after. In 2004 a makeshift structure was created and a image of Goddess Kali installed inside. .... Ramna Kali Temple before its destruction:

"1950 Barishal, East Pakistan: “An old Hindu teacher was burnt alive by his own Muslim students. The teacher, who was a bachelor and lived in Muladi with his widowed sister, had dedicated all his life to his profession. Among his students, the marjority of whom were Muslims, picked up their old teacher and placed him in a huge bonfire of faggots. While he was being roasted alive, these boys danced around the fire in merriment. The sister escaped to Calcutta and related the tale of this gruesome murder.”(AJ Kamra The Prolonged Partition and its Pogroms”, Voice Pf India, New Delhi, 2020, p, 68)