Dhaka: Seven people were arrested in connection with the alleged lynching of a youth, whom the Yunus administration identified as a Hindu, in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district, according to reports.
The Yunus administration claimed that the victim was Dipu Chandra Das, a 27-year-old Sanatan Hindu.
“The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested seven individuals as suspects in the beating murder of Dipu Chandra Das (27), a Sanatan Hindu youth, in Baluka, Mymensingh,” a post from the X handle of Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh, Mohammed Yunus, in Bengali reads.
According to the post, those arrested are Md. Limon Sarkar (19), Md. Tarek Hossain (19), Md. Manik Mia (20), Ershad Ali (39), Nijum Uddin (20), Alomgir Hossain (38) and Md. Miraj Hossain Akon (46).
ময়মনসিংহ হিন্দু যুবককে পিটিয়ে হত্যার ঘটনায় গ্রেফতার ৭
ময়মনসিংহ, ২০ ডিসেম্বর ২০২৫: ময়মনসিংহের ভালুকায় সনাতন ধর্মাবলম্বী যুবক দিপু চন্দ্র দাসকে (২৭) পিটিয়ে হত্যার ঘটনায় সাত ব্যক্তিকে সন্দেহভাজন হিসেবে গ্রেফতার করেছে র্যাপিড অ্যাকশন ব্যাটালিয়ন (র্যাব)
গ্রেফতারকৃতরা…
— Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh (@ChiefAdviserGoB) December 20, 2025
“RAB-14 conducted operations at various locations and arrested the aforementioned suspects,” the post adds.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra condemns the incident
“The news of the brutal murder of Hindu youth Dipu Chandra Das by a mob in Bangladesh is extremely disturbing. In any civilised society, discrimination, violence, and murder based on religion, caste, or identity are crimes against humanity,” Congress MP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, wrote on X.
बांग्लादेश में हिंदू युवक दीपू चंद्र दास की भीड़ द्वारा बर्बरतापूर्ण हत्या का समाचार अत्यंत चिंताजनक है। किसी भी सभ्य समाज में धर्म, जाति, पहचान आदि के आधार पर भेदभाव, हिंसा और हत्या मानवता के खिलाफ अपराध है।
भारत सरकार को पड़ोसी देश में हिंदू, ईसाई और बौद्ध अल्पसंख्यकों के…
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) December 19, 2025
Mymensingh lynching
The victim was lynched amid protests over the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, a key figure of last year’s student-led July Uprising in Bangladesh. Hadi died on Thursday at a hospital in Singapore after being shot in the head by masked gunmen in Dhaka on December 12.
The Bangladesh’s interim government, led by Yunus, had strongly condemned the alleged lynching of Das. The government had also urged people to abstain from violence, provocation and hatred and called Hadi a martyr. It also expressed solidarity with journalists of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo, whose offices were vandalised.
