Mobocracy and targeted Hindu killing still continue in Bangladesh, government unable to control situation

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, April 27, 2026

The infamous monocracy and targeted killing of Hindu minorities unleashed during Yunus led interim government’s misrules continue to rule the roost in different parts of Bangladesh. Recently the home minister of the ruling BNP government Salahuddin Ahmed had declared the end of mob culture and targeted killings but his claim falls flat on hard ground realities.

Sources from Bangladesh said that an innocent and harmless Hindu priest of a ‘Shibkali’ temple , Nayan Das Biswas (55) , had been called away from home in Putia area under Cox Bazar on the night of April 19 by an unknown person but did not return home. His family members had filed a complaint with the Cox Bazar model police station on April 20 . Having conducted a search operation in the jungle area near Cox Bazar town the police personnel discovered priest Nayan Das Biswas’s lifeless body hanging from a tree trunk. His body bore burn marks and multiple marks of torture before death by strangling. An investigation is on nominally but the killers are unlikely to be arrested and brought to justice.

In yet another incident of targeted Hindu killing a junior Hindu officer of custom and excise deparment Bullet Bairagi (35) was killed by unknown murderers on his way back home to Comilla town after undergoing departmental training in Chittagong . Sources said Bullet Bairagi had boarded the vehicle in Chittagong after training on April 24 evening and called his wife in Comilla on mobile at 2-00 in the night informing her that he would return home soon. But when he did not reach home even in the morning his family members informed police and the police personnel discovered his bloodied dead body beside the ‘Vishwa Road’, bearing multiple injury and blood marks.

Apart from this, a report compiled by the Dhaka based rights group ‘Human Rights Support Society’ said that in the first three months of the current year-that is from January 1 to March 31-49 people died in altogether 88 incidents of mob violence. This also includes the brutal lynching to death of a Muslim ‘Sufi Peer’Abdur Rahaman by a fanatic Muslim mob on April 11 in Kushtia district. Earlier on April 10 another mob had attacked and beaten up another group of people without any provocation in ‘Shahbag’ square of Dhaka , identifying them as transgenders though no fatality had occurred on that occasion. Sources said that the violent fundamentalist ideologies of ‘Wahabism’ and ‘Salafism’ among Muslims have been on the rise in Bangladesh , putting Hindu and Buddhist minorities as well as liberal and rational Muslims in danger.

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