Hindu journalist's family attacked by Muslim mob in Bangladesh for reporting hate crimes against Hindus

Case ID : 5c278c0 | Location : Sylhet Division, Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Thu, 18 December, 2025

Case ID : 5c278c0

Sylhet Division, Bangladesh

18 December, 2025

Hindu journalist's family attacked by Muslim mob in Bangladesh for reporting hate crimes against Hindus

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for opposing radicals or trying to save victim

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Sylhet Division of Bangladesh, a Hindu journalist named Sushant Dasgupta's family faced a brutal attack by a Muslim mob. The journalist is well known for reporting hate crimes committed against Hindus in Bangladesh. According to media reports, this occurred on Friday, 19 December 2025, when Muslim attackers vandalised the residence of Sushant Dasgupta following demonstrations over the death of radical anti-India leader Osman Hadi. The incident took place in the Chirakandi area of Habiganj town in Sylhet Division. Sushant Dasgupta is associated with the daily Amar Habiganj. He had been living in the United Kingdom since his release on bail following an arbitrary arrest under the Digital Security Act in 2020. Visuals that surfaced on social media showed a violent Muslim mob ambushing the house of Sushant Dasgupta and carrying out extensive vandalism. Journalist B Jahanara Nuri stated that the mother and sister of the Hindu journalist had a narrow escape during the targeted attack. While tweeting about the matter, author Deep Halder wrote, “Sushant Dasgupta is a Bangladeshi investigative journalist based in London. He has written on the financial frauds of Yunus and the targeted attacks on Hindus. This is the price his family still in Bangladesh has to pay!” A fresh wave of anti-Hindu violence prevailed across Bangladesh following the death of Sharif Osman Bin Hadi. This escalation occurred against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Hindu violence that had persisted since the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina government in August 2024, during which Hindu homes, temples, and religious spaces were repeatedly attacked, and the Hindu community faced intimidation, arson, and mob attacks. In the aftermath of Hadi’s death, Hindu homes were selectively targeted and set ablaze in multiple localities by Muslim mobs, forcing families to flee and rendering many homeless. The violence was not sporadic but patterned, with Muslim mobs targeting Hindu neighbourhoods, properties, and religious symbols with impunity. One of the many victims of this wave of violence was a Hindu man named Dipu Chandra Das, who was brutally lynched by a Muslim mob over false allegations of blasphemy. Such targeting of innocent Hindus over fabricated charges illustrated the vulnerability of the Hindu minority under conditions of rising communal hostility. Posters and written materials calling for the extermination of Hindus were displayed in public spaces, signalling an alarming normalisation of genocidal rhetoric. Combined with acts of physical violence, arson, and vandalism, these developments demonstrated a coordinated campaign designed to terrorise the Hindu community and assert Islamic dominance. Notably, Sharif Osman Bin Hadi was a Muslim political activist and student leader known for his anti-Hindu and anti-India stance. He was actively involved in the political unrest that followed the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government and was killed in Dhaka in December 2025 during clashes, after which Hindus were blamed and subsequently targeted.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category selected in this case is- Attack not resulting in death. The subcategory selected is- Attacked for opposing radicals or trying to save victim. In several cases, Hindus are attacked for opposing religiously motivated crimes being committed against a fellow Hindu or simply for voicing an opinion opposing radical elements, who either have in the past or continue to persecute Hindus. In such cases, the initial attack against the victim, against which the Hindu was trying to defend the victim, would also need to be classified as a religiously motivated hate crime. Since the initial crime itself was religiously motivated and the subsequent crime of attempting to save the victim or speaking against the radical elements ends up inviting a violent attack, it would also be classified as a religiously motivated hate crime under this category. The other subcategory selected 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. This case exemplifies a blatant anti-Hindu hate crime, where a Hindu journalist, Sushant Dasgupta's family, endured a vicious attack by a Muslim mob in Bangladesh precisely because he relentlessly exposed targeted atrocities against Hindus. Sushant Dasgupta, a dedicated voice for the voiceless Hindu minority, repeatedly documented hate crimes and opposed radical Muslim elements, making his family the direct proxy for silencing him. By storming their home, the attackers unleashed violence rooted in deep religious animosity, targeting Hindus not just for their faith but for daring to defend it through journalism. This pattern repeats starkly across Bangladesh: Hindus who report or resist crimes against their community face swift retribution from Muslim extremists, as seen here, where the mob's assault on his vulnerable mother and sister aimed to terrorise and break Sushant Dasgupta himself. Such calculated brutality, vandalising a Hindu home to punish truthful reporting, marks it unmistakably as a religiously motivated hate crime, stripping away any pretence of randomness. Amidst Bangladesh's relentless persecution of Hindus, the ferocity of this family attack underscores their Hindu identity as the central trigger, amplifying the hate crime's gravity. The Muslim mob struck immediately after protests over a radical anti-India leader's death, targeting a Hindu journalist's home in a calculated effort to terrorise the entire community. This was no mere vandalism; it was a targeted assault against people marked by their Hindu faith, with the attackers' religious fury driving them to endanger a defenceless Hindu family who narrowly escaped harm. In a nation where Hindus face systemic violence over their identity, from temple desecrations to forced evictions, this assault fits a grim mosaic of brutality, where being Hindu invites violence and discrimination. The attack demonstrated religious hatred, transforming a family's home into a battlefield and cementing this as a textbook example of a religiously fuelled hate crime. When viewed alongside the horrific murder days earlier of Hindu man Dipu Chandra Das in Bhaluka town, Bangladesh, where Muslim extremists savagely killed him and set his body ablaze over an unproven blasphemy allegation on 18th December 2025, these back-to-back horrors expose a chilling pattern of anti-Hindu violence. First, a Hindu man's life ended in flames for alleged blasphemy against Islam; then, a Hindu journalist's family suffered a targeted attack by a Muslim mob for reporting hate crimes against Hindus. This rapid escalation reveals not isolated rage but organised impunity targeting Bangladesh's Hindu. Consequently, this incident is now being documented in the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: Media reports confirm that Hindu journalist Sushant Dasgupta's family faced a violent attack by a Muslim mob in Bangladesh. While the exact number of family members affected remains unspecified, only two, his mother and sister, have been explicitly identified. These two are therefore cited as the confirmed victims in this report. This represents a conservative estimate; additional family members may have been impacted.