Minor Hindu boy lured, abducted and murdered by two Muslim men in Bangladesh

Case ID : 8da189d | Location : Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Thu, 6 November, 2025

Case ID : 8da189d

Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh

6 November, 2025

Minor Hindu boy lured, abducted and murdered by two Muslim men in Bangladesh

Attack resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a minor Hindu boy named Sudipto Roy (17) was kidnapped and murdered after being lured away from his hostel by two Muslim men, Abdullah and Junaid Dewan. According to reports, Sudipto, an 11th-grade student living at the Cambrian College hostel on Shaheed Abdul Aziz Road in Bhatara, disappeared on the night of 7 November after leaving its premises. Around 2:45 am the following morning, a ransom call demanding eight million taka was made from Sudipto’s mobile to his family, with threats to kill him if the money was not delivered. The kidnappers later reduced the demand to one million and then to five hundred thousand takas, directing the family to deliver the amount in Mymensingh. Sudipto’s father, Himanshu Kumar Roy, filed a kidnapping complaint on 8 November, and the police began tracing individuals connected to the call. Police soon identified and arrested the two Muslim youths, Abdullah and Junaid Dewan, who lived in the same locality and were acquainted with the victim. It was revealed that the two perpetrators had rented a flat on the third floor of Ekta Tower in Diabari on 3 November and used it as the site of their crime. Since the perpetrators already knew the victim, they lured him to their apartment and tactfully took his mobile phone once he fell asleep. They used it to demand Tk 8 million in ransom from the victim’s family, threatening to kill him if the money was not paid. The following morning, Sudipto discovered that his mobile phone was missing, and Abdullah and Junaid refused to return it. When Sudipto got his phone back, he briefly managed to speak with his father, who informed him about the ransom call. This resulted in a heated confrontation, during which Abdullah struck Sudipto on the neck with a sharp weapon and then, together with Junaid, inflicted multiple additional blows, killing him inside the flat. Afterwards, when the perpetrators failed to dispose of the body, they locked the flat and attempted to flee Madhupur in Tangail. Sudipto’s body was discovered on 11 November 2025, after local residents raised suspicion due to a foul odour, prompting them to inform the police. When the door was broken open, officers found Sudipto’s decomposed body in the bathroom of the flat. Based on the investigation, the two accused were arrested by the police. As of the date of writing this report, both the accused were produced before a court, where they confessed to their crime and were subsequently sent to jail. This case serves as a stark reminder of the continued persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, which has only increased manifold since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5, 2024. After her violent ouster, Bangladesh plunged into chaos as Islamist extremists took advantage of the political turmoil to unleash a wave of terror and violence against the Hindu community. The Islamist mobs have attacked Hindu homes, burned them to the ground, and abducted women in a horrific descent into anarchy. Several temples have been destroyed in various parts of the Islamic country in a major crackdown on Hindus. Reports have exposed how Muslim students forced around 60 Hindu teachers, professors, and government officials to resign. Exiled Bangladeshi activist Asad Noor has also revealed that the minority Hindu community is now being coerced into joining ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’. Hindu religious events have been repeatedly targeted. On 6th September, a procession carrying Lord Ganesha’s idol was attacked in Chittagong. Ahead of Durga Puja, multiple incidents of idol vandalism occurred, including attacks in Mymensingh, Pabna, Rajshahi, Kishoreganj, and Dhaka. On 29th November, a violent Muslim mob attacked three temples in Patharghata, Chittagong, immediately after Jumma Namaz. The crackdown on Hindu voices has also escalated. On 30th November, Hindu journalist Munni Saha was arrested in Dhaka. Muslim mob attacks have increased in Bangladesh, for example, on 22nd May 2025, a Muslim mob carried out arson attacks selectively on Hindu homes in Dahar Mashihati village in Abhaynagar upazila in Jessore district of Bangladesh. Even ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu and his aides have been targeted, and attempts have been made to ban ISKCON and suppress Hindu protests through sedition charges. These arbitrary actions point to a systematic pattern of persecution under Muhammad Yunus’s interim government.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Attack resulting in death. Within it, the sub-category 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 the 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, cases where the attack led to the death of the Hindu victim/s would be documented. This case has been added to the tracker because a minor Hindu boy was lured, abducted and murdered by the Muslim perpetrators in Bangladesh. If such an incident had occurred elsewhere, it might have been placed under the "Undecided" database of the Hinduphobia Tracker, as the case details do not explicitly indicate a religious motive, allowing room to interpret it as a crime of opportunity. However, it is important to note that while the available details do not explicitly indicate a religious motive, the broader context cannot be ignored. When there is an ongoing ethnic cleansing based on religious identity, every crime in and of itself is assumed to be motivated by the same religious animosity, even if there is a lack of a specific religious marker in the immediate crime. During an ongoing ethnic cleansing, the dehumanisation of people based on their religious identity and the normalisation of religious hostility drive the crimes committed against them, even when there is a lack of stated religious motive. For the purpose of documenting the 2024 ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh, the Hinduphobia Tracker is assuming religious motivation ab initio. If a case is specifically and beyond a reasonable doubt proven to be driven by motivations other than religious hostility, it will post-facto be removed from the hate crime database. Given that this case meets the parameters of a religiously motivated crime, it is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when an event occurred or when the victim's ordeal began. Therefore, the date of the incident has been recorded as 7 November 2025 - the day he went missing/abducted.