Hindu man abducted and killed by unidentified men in Bangladesh amidst ongoing persecution of Hindus

Case ID : d326ecc | Location : Bogra District, Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Sun, 21 December, 2025

Case ID : d326ecc

Bogra District, Bangladesh

21 December, 2025

Hindu man abducted and killed by unidentified men in Bangladesh amidst ongoing persecution of Hindus

Attack resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Adamdighi Upazila in Bogura district of Bangladesh, a 35-year-old Hindu man named Pintu Akanda was abducted and murdered by four unidentified people. According to news reports, on 23 December 2025, the body of Pintu Akanda was recovered from a microbus in the Adamdighi subdistrict of Bogura. He was abducted at gunpoint by four unidentified assailants a day earlier, on 22 December 2025. The victim was a businessman and a lotto showroom owner. He resided at Lohagacha village in Raninagar Upazila of Naogaon. As per the police, the deceased, Pintu Akanda, was strangled to death. In a statement, Assistant Superintendent of Police Asif Hussain said, "Our primary suspicion is that Pintu was abducted at gunpoint and then strangled to death. We are currently investigating." The victim's family filed a police complaint. Following this, CCTV footage of the abduction surfaced on social media. The video showed four masked men pointing guns at Pintu and taking him out of his showroom. The victim was then forced into a car and sped off towards Adamdighi via the Bogura-Naogaon regional highway. At the time of writing this report, the police detained the microbus driver and another suspect for interrogation in connection with the incident. 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 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 constitutes a clear instance of a religiously motivated crime, as a 35-year-old Hindu man, Pintu Akanda, was abducted at gunpoint from his lotto showroom, strangled to death, and his body dumped in a microbus in Bangladesh, a country that experiences sustained and well-documented persecution of Hindus. The brutality of the crime, coupled with the targeted abduction and execution-style murder, reflected not only criminal intent but also a broader environment of hostility and dehumanisation directed at the Hindu victim. The killing did not occur in isolation; it reflected 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 severity of the violence inflicted upon Pintu Akanda, including abduction at gunpoint from his showroom, strangulation, and dumping of his body in a microbus, underscored the extreme vulnerability of Hindus within the prevailing climate of religious hatred. The calculated nature of the abduction and execution-style murder further demonstrated how such acts are carried out with impunity. This murder of a Hindu man over his identity lays bare the terror Hindus face in Bangladesh, where simply existing as one invites deadly violence. Innocent Hindus are butchered for who they are, with no other justification. Such targeted brutality unmasks profound animosity towards Hinduism and its adherents, marking this as an undeniable instance of a hate-driven attack. Notably, this incident occurred just days after another Hindu man, Dipu Chandra Das, was murdered and his body set ablaze by a Muslim mob on 18 December 2025 over false blasphemy allegations following Osman Hadi's death. Subsequently, several attacks against Hindus followed, with homes and temples razed and torched, and Hindus assaulted by Muslim mobs. Against this backdrop of targeted anti-Hindu violence, Pintu Akanda's killing fits the same chilling pattern in a nation seething with anti-Hindu hatred. In this case, even though the perpetrators' identities remain unknown, the religiously motivated nature of the crime is clearly evident. Henceforth, this case is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker.