Hindu man brutally killed by unidentified people in Bangladesh amidst ongoing persecution of religious minorities

Case ID : d3276d3 | Location : Moulvibazar District, Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Tue, 10 February, 2026

Case ID : d3276d3

Moulvibazar District, Bangladesh

10 February, 2026

Hindu man brutally killed by unidentified people in Bangladesh amidst ongoing persecution of religious minorities

Attack resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

A Hindu man named Ratan Sahukar, aged 23, was brutally killed by a few unidentified people at the Champara Tea Estate in the Moulvibazar District in Bangladesh. According to media reports, when the deceased victim failed to show up for work at 10 a.m. on Wednesday (12 February 2026), his colleagues began searching for him. They then found Ratan’s blood-soaked body in the tea estate. His hands and feet were tied with rope, and his body bore deep wounds. It was suggested that Ratan had been murdered elsewhere and that his body had been dumped in the tea plantation. The murder was linked to the Bangladesh elections. The deceased’s brother, Laxman Kar, said that Ratan had been missing since the night of 11 February 2026 and that the family had been searching for him everywhere. Laxman said that he received information that his brother was at a tea plantation and, upon arriving there, he identified the body. He added that the motive behind the murder had not been determined. Police also arrived at the scene, took possession of the body, and sent it to Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital for a post-mortem examination. Police stated that an investigation was underway to identify the perpetrators of the murder. A few days prior to this incident being discovered, 62-year-old Hindu businessman Sushen Chandra Sarkar was murdered in Mymensingh. Unidentified assailants entered his shop at night, attacked him with sharp weapons, and looted it. The case was also previously covered by the Hinduphobia Tracker. 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 the case is- Attack resulting in death. 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. In this case, a 23-year-old Hindu man named Ratan Sahukar was brutally killed by unidentified assailants at Champara tea estate in Moulvibazar district, Bangladesh. In the prevailing environment of anti-Hindu hostility in Bangladesh, this incident is treated as consistent with the wider pattern of violence affecting Hindus. While some may argue that the case details do not explicitly state a religious motive, the broader context of anti-Hindu persecution in Bangladesh remains relevant for classification. During periods of sustained violence against Hindus based on religious identity, the Hinduphobia Tracker applies a contextual presumption that attacks on Hindu victims are likely faith-targeted, even when the immediate report does not record a specific religious marker. In such periods, the normalisation of religious hostility and dehumanisation of minorities can contribute to crimes against them without perpetrators openly stating a motive. For the purpose of documenting the 2024 to 2026 ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh and the subsequent persecution after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, 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. In this case, the extreme brutality of the killing, hands and feet tied with rope, deep wounds, and body dumped, matched the severity in other attacks on Hindu victims during this period, supporting contextual classification of likely religious hostility, absent contrary evidence. The case is documented as likely involving faith targeting, given the victim’s identity and the surrounding pattern of persecution, while remaining open to revision if new facts emerge. Notably, this murder occurred just weeks after a Hindu man, Dipu Chandra Das, was killed by a Muslim mob in Bhaluka town, Bangladesh, on 18 December 2025, following a false blasphemy allegation. When viewed alongside such incidents, the present case is recorded as part of a broader cycle of violence affecting Hindus, reinforcing the contextual presumption applied in this period. Therefore, this case is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the dates of incidents based on when the crime occurs. However, in this case, the media has not stated the exact date when the victim was murdered. It only states the date when he went missing, 11 February 2026, and the day his body was found, 12 February 2026. Henceforth, the date he went missing, 11 February 2026, is selected as the indicative incident date. This is recorded for documentation purposes only.