10 arrested over Hindu man's lynching in Bangladesh

Ten radical person been arrested successful transportation with the lynching of a Hindu antheral successful Bangladesh, Chief Adviser of the interim authorities Muhammad Yunus announced Saturday (December 20, 2025).

Dipu Chandra Das, a 25-year-old garment mill worker, was lynched to decease by a mob and his assemblage acceptable connected occurrence implicit alleged blasphemy successful Baluka successful Mymensingh connected Thursday (December 18, 2025).

Of the 10, 7 were arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) portion 3 were arrested by the constabulary arsenic suspects successful the case, Ms. Yunus said successful a connection connected X (formerly Twitter).

“The RAB and constabulary conducted operations successful assorted locations to apprehension these individuals,” helium said. The arrests were made during operations astatine assorted locations, and the ages of those arrested ranged from 19 to 46.

According to the police, Das was archetypal beaten up by a mob extracurricular the mill implicit blasphemy allegations and hanged from a tree. The assemblage past near the assemblage of the deceased connected the broadside of the Dhaka-Mymensingh road and aboriginal acceptable it connected fire.

The constabulary recovered the assemblage and sent it to the Mymensingh Medical College morgue for autopsy. The interim authorities connected Friday (December 19, 2025) condemned the lynching, saying determination is nary abstraction for specified unit successful the caller Bangladesh.

“The perpetrators of this heinous transgression volition not beryllium spared,” the interim authorities said successful a statement. The Hindu colonisation successful Bangladesh has faced a bid of anti-minority incidents crossed the state aft the ouster of the past Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina successful August past year.