Hindu man brutally killed, his body set ablaze by mob in Bangladesh amidst ongoing persecution of Hindus

Case ID : d326d9a | Location : Shariatpur District, Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Tue, 30 December, 2025

Case ID : d326d9a

Shariatpur District, Bangladesh

30 December, 2025

Hindu man brutally killed, his body set ablaze by mob in Bangladesh amidst ongoing persecution of Hindus

Attack resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Shariatpur district in Bangladesh, a 50-year-old Hindu man named Khokon Das faced a severe attack by a mob comprising unknown people that set him on fire. The victim was even subjected to brutal physical assault and stabbing by the mob. As a result of this brutal attack, the victim died. According to media reports, this incident occurred on 31 December 2025. The victim owned a medical shop. A violent mob intercepted him while he was returning home after closing his shop. The attackers assaulted him with sharp weapons, stabbed him, beat him on the head, sprinkled petrol on his body, and set him ablaze. The victim jumped into a nearby pond to save himself from the flames. He sustained serious injuries in the attack. Following this, the victim, Khokon Das, was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after his condition deteriorated. In the hospital, the victim was undergoing treatment. However, the victim died. Recounting the horror, Das’ wife said her husband was a simple man with no enmity towards anyone. “They stabbed him, hit him on the head and set him on fire. I don’t know who did this. We just want justice,” she said, adding that her husband never harmed anyone. 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 ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Attack resulting in death. The 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, cases where the attack led to the death of the Hindu victim/s would be documented. This case stands as a clear instance of religiously motivated crime, as the Hindu victim faced brutal attack, stabbing, and immolation by a mob in Bangladesh amidst the ongoing religious persecution of Hindus in the country. This severe attack resulted in his death. The violence reflects deep-seated hatred tied to the victim's faith in a nation gripped by anti-Hindu hostility. While some may argue that the case details do not explicitly indicate a religious motive. However, the broader context of anti-Hindu persecution in Bangladesh 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 and the subsequent ongoing persecution following the death of Osman Hadi, the Hinduphobia Tracker assumes religious motivation from the outset. If any case is proven beyond a reasonable doubt to stem from motivations other than religious hostility, it will be removed from the hate crime database post-facto. In this case, the way the Hindu man suffered a mob attack, stabbing, and immolation demonstrates not random criminality but religious profiling and killing of a Hindu individual due to his faith. Amidst the ongoing religious persecution of Hindus, the attack's severity on a Hindu man proves not a random crime of opportunity but one driven by religious hostility. Attacking a Hindu man for his religious identity in this manner constitutes a clear instance of a religiously motivated crime. Such attacks on Hindus reveal the animosity that perpetrators hold for Hindus simply for existing as Hindus, confirming it as a hate crime motivated by anti-Hindu hostility. The attack's severity and the premeditated nature of the well-armed mob, equipped with weapons and petrol to assault and set the Hindu victim ablaze, show that the crime was not an isolated incident but a deliberate attempt to kill a Hindu man for his faith identity. This amounts to a clear instance of an anti-Hindu communal attack. Such acts are a result of deep-seated hatred and contempt for the Hindu community and their faith. Notably, this murder occurred just days after another Hindu man, Dipu Chandra Das, was brutally killed and his body set ablaze by a Muslim mob over a false allegation of blasphemy against Islam in Bhaluka town, Bangladesh, on 18 December 2025. Such instances of religiously motivated targeting of Hindus demonstrated that this incident was not an isolated event but a pattern of selective attacks on Hindus with impunity. In the case of Khokon Das, despite the perpetrators' identities remaining unknown, the attack unequivocally demonstrates religious motivation. Therefore, the Hinduphobia Tracker is recording this incident in its hate crime database.