Hindu family threatened with murder by Muslims, forced to flee ancestral property in Bangladesh

Case ID : 30a88fd | Location : Khulna Division, Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Thu, 21 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a88fd

Khulna Division, Bangladesh

21 May, 2026

Hindu family threatened with murder by Muslims, forced to flee ancestral property in Bangladesh

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Attacked to induce migration from non-Hindu dominated area

Case Summary

A Hindu family in Chitalmari upazila of Bagerhat, Bangladesh, faced a coordinated attack, threats of murder, and intimidation inside their own home. The Hindu family stated that a group of Muslim men entered their residence, abused family members, and threatened to kill them if they refused to abandon their ancestral home. The attack left the Hindu family living in fear and insecurity inside their locality. The incident took place in the Barobaria Bazar area of Chitalmari upazila on 22nd May 2025 at around 8:00 pm. The targeted Hindu household belonged to retired schoolteacher Madhusudan Mondal. The perpetrators included Muslim men identified as Sagar Sheikh of Chitalmari village, Rakib Hasan Sujon of Chakrakhali village, and Sikandar Molla of Arai Bari village. The Hindu family stated that the perpetrators had been creating sustained pressure on them for a prolonged period with the objective of seizing their home and land. On the evening of 22nd May 2025, the group forcibly entered the Hindu family’s residence and behaved aggressively with members of the household. The attackers verbally abused the family and created an atmosphere of terror inside the home. During the confrontation, the perpetrators pressured the Hindu family to vacate their residence and leave the area. When the family resisted, the Muslim men threatened them with physical violence and murder. The Hindu family stated that the perpetrators warned them that they would be killed if they did not leave for India. Following the attack and threats, the Hindu family began living in fear for their safety. Rupa Sindhu Mondal, the son of Madhusudan Mondal, stated that the family had lived peacefully in the area for many years. He said that sustained efforts had recently been made to forcibly pressure the family and take control of their property. He stated that the intimidation had now escalated into direct threats and attacks against the family. The incident created panic and concern within the locality. Neighbours expressed anxiety regarding the safety of Hindu families living in the area and called for urgent intervention to ensure their protection. Local residents and community members demanded legal action against the perpetrators and immediate security measures for the Hindu family. This attack against the Hindu family in Chitalmari occurred amidst the continuing escalation of anti Hindu violence in Bangladesh. The threats ordering the Hindu family to leave for India reflected a broader pattern in which Hindu minorities were targeted through intimidation, coercion, threats of displacement, and pressure to abandon their homes and land. The attack also reflected the growing insecurity faced by Hindu families living in areas where organised groups increasingly targeted minority households through fear and intimidation. This escalation of violence against Hindus in Bangladesh unfolded in three distinct phases, first following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina’s government in August 2024, second after the death of Sharif Osman Bin Hadi in December 2025, and third in the immediate aftermath of the 13th National Parliamentary Election 2026. Following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, attacks on Hindu homes, temples, and religious institutions increased across Bangladesh. Hindu neighbourhoods faced intimidation campaigns, arson, mob assaults, and targeted violence. The Hinduphobia Tracker documented 336+ incidents targeting the Hindu minority during this period, reflecting the scale and persistence of anti Hindu persecution. A further escalation occurred after the death of Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, a Muslim political activist known for anti Hindu and anti India rhetoric. Hadi died in Dhaka on 18th December 2025 during political clashes. In the aftermath, Hindu communities were blamed and targeted through retaliatory violence across multiple districts. Hindu homes were selectively set ablaze, families were displaced, and organised Muslim mobs targeted Hindu neighbourhoods, religious properties, and businesses. Among the victims was Dipu Chandra Das, who was lynched to death and whose body was burned by a Muslim mob following false blasphemy accusations. The Hinduphobia Tracker documented 51+ incidents of anti Hindu violence in the period following Hadi’s death alone. Public displays calling for violence and extermination of Hindus also emerged during this period, reflecting the increasing normalisation of genocidal anti Hindu rhetoric. Combined with arson, assaults, vandalism, looting, and intimidation, these incidents created an organised atmosphere of hostility and fear directed at the Hindu minority community. The third phase of violence emerged after the 13th National Parliamentary Election 2026. Hindu families in districts including Noakhali, Rangpur, Nilphamari, Sylhet, Thakurgaon, and Dinajpur faced coordinated attacks involving looting, arson, assaults, and vandalism of homes and temples. In multiple incidents, Hindu families were specifically threatened with displacement and forced migration.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case was added to the tracker under the primary category of attack not resulting in death. The sub-category selected for this case is - Attacked for Hindu identity. In several cases, Hindus are attacked merely for their Hindu identity without any perceived provocation. A classic example of this category of religiously motivated hate crime is a murder in 2016. 7 ISIS terrorists were convicted for shooting a school principal in Kanpur because they got ‘triggered’ seeing the Kalava on his wrist and tilak that he had put. In this, the Hindu victim had offered no provocation except for his Hindu religious identity. The motivation for the murder was purely religious, driven by religious supremacy. Such cases where Hindus are targeted merely for their religious identity would be documented as a hate crime under this category. Another sub-category selected for this case - Attacked to induce migration from non-Hindu dominated area. There have been cases where the Hindus living in an area, often with a majority dwelling belonging to non-Hindus or those harbouring animosity towards the Hindu faith, the Hindu residents experience threats and violence. The violence is employed with the aim of making the Hindus leave the area and relocate, so the area could be turned into an exclusive ghetto for adherents of the non-Hindu faith or those who harbor animosity towards the Hindu faith. In several cases, the aim of exodus is explicit. However, in several cases, the demand for exodus of Hindu residents is not explicit, however, violence by non-Hindu residents leaves the Hindu residents no option but to leave the area, thereby, turning the area into an exclusive ghetto of non-Hindu residents. In such cases, there are instances violence against the Hindu residents explicitly. For example, in the Hauz Qazi case of 2019, the Muslim residents claimed that mob violence against the Hindu residents had been triggered by a parking dispute. However, the violence did turn religious with a temple being desecrated and was directed specifically against the Hindu residents. The Hindu residents of the area were clear that the violence was religiously motivated and one of the motives was to affect an exodus of the Hindu residents. In such cases, even though the perpetrators have not explicitly expressed the aim of affecting exodus, the given circumstances and violence and precedent point to the intention of exodus and therefore would be categorized under this sub-category. Such crimes are religiously motivated and therefore are hate crimes. In this case, a Hindu family in Chitalmari upazila of Bagerhat, Bangladesh, was subjected to intimidation, threats of murder, coercive pressure to abandon their ancestral home, and targeted harassment by Muslim men. The perpetrators entered the Hindu family’s residence, verbally abused family members, threatened violence, and warned them to leave the area and migrate to India. In the prevailing climate of anti Hindu hostility in Bangladesh, this attack aligned with the wider pattern of intimidation and displacement faced by vulnerable Hindu minority families across the country. While the incident emerged in the context of a property related dispute, the nature of the threats and the specific instruction ordering the Hindu family to “go to India” carried clear communal implications within Bangladesh’s Muslim majority environment. The perpetrators did not merely threaten violence during a local disagreement. They directly linked the Hindu family’s continued existence in the area to forced migration outside the country. Such threats reflected the broader pattern in which Hindu minorities in Bangladesh were treated as outsiders whose place within their own homeland was conditional and precarious. For the purpose of documenting the 2024 to 2026 ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh and the subsequent persecution after the political exile of Sheikh Hasina, the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, and the 13th National Parliamentary Election 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records such incidents as likely religiously motivated at the point of entry. If any case is later established through credible investigation or court findings to stem from motivations other than religious hostility, it will be revised or removed from the hate crime database. The coordinated intimidation directed against Madhusudan Mondal’s Hindu family mirrored multiple documented attacks on Hindu households during this period in Bangladesh. The perpetrators entered the family home as a group, created an atmosphere of terror, abused members of the household, and threatened murder if they refused to vacate the property. The case warranted documentation as probable religious targeting given the family’s Hindu minority status, the sustained pressure surrounding their homestead, and the wider pattern of anti Hindu persecution unfolding across Bangladesh. This attack also reflected the broader vulnerability of Hindu families living in Muslim majority localities where property intimidation, threats, and coercion were increasingly used to pressure minorities into abandoning their homes. The instruction ordering the Hindu family to leave for India carried particular significance because it framed the family as religious outsiders who did not belong in Bangladesh despite having lived there for generations. The threat was not simply about land. It was tied to the family’s identity as Hindus living within a hostile communal atmosphere. The demand that the family migrate to India demonstrated a deliberate attempt to induce displacement from a non Hindu dominated area through fear and intimidation. Such rhetoric has repeatedly appeared in attacks targeting Hindus in Bangladesh, where perpetrators sought to pressure Hindu minorities into abandoning ancestral homes, businesses, and landholdings. The intimidation therefore extended beyond one family dispute and reflected a wider communal pattern aimed at weakening the continued presence of Hindus in Muslim majority regions. This Chitalmari attack must be viewed within Bangladesh’s documented anti Hindu environment, where vulnerable Hindu families increasingly faced intimidation, threats of dispossession, and pressure to flee their localities. The organised nature of the threats and the repeated attempts to force the Hindu family from their home reflected calculated coercion designed to create fear and insecurity. Madhusudan Mondal’s family joined numerous Hindu households across Bangladesh whose religious identity increasingly exposed them to hostility, displacement pressure, and communal targeting. Within this wider environment of anti Hindu persecution in Bangladesh, the attack on Madhusudan Mondal’s Hindu family reflected the growing vulnerability of Hindu minorities facing threats, intimidation, and pressure to abandon their homes. The threats ordering the family to leave for India and the sustained attempts to seize their property reinforced fears of religiously motivated targeting against Hindu households living as a minority community in Bangladesh. Given Bangladesh’s sustained anti Hindu persecution environment and the broader pattern of attacks, intimidation, and forced displacement threats targeting Hindu minorities, this case met all thresholds for inclusion in the Hinduphobia Tracker’s hate crime database. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker acknowledges that multiple members of the Hindu family were subjected to intimidation, threats, and violence during this incident. However, as only Madhusudan Mondal and his son Rupa Sindhu Mondal were explicitly identified in available reports, the victim count has been recorded as 2, while noting that several additional unnamed family members, including women and children, were also affected during the attack.