Hindu businessman robbed and brutally attacked by robbers in Bangladesh

Case ID : e274b9e | Location : Gazipur District, Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Wed, 2 July, 2025

Case ID : e274b9e

Gazipur District, Bangladesh

2 July, 2025

Hindu businessman robbed and brutally attacked by robbers in Bangladesh

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In the College Gate area of Konabari, Gazipur Metropolitan City, Bangladesh, a Hindu businessman was robbed and brutally attacked by armed men. According to reports, the Hindu man, 38-year-old Sanjit Mondal, a resident of Dewaliyabari in Gazipur Sadar, operates a jewellery shop named ‘Sathi Jewellers’ and a mobile financial service agency in the College Gate School Market. While returning home with gold ornaments and Tk 200,000 in cash, he was intercepted by a group of robbers who brutally and violently attacked him with sharp weapons. They looted his gold ornaments and the cash from his possession. When locals gathered to help the victim, the attackers detonated a cocktail bomb to instil panic before fleeing the scene. Sanjit was severely injured and was admitted to Enam Medical College hospital, where he was undergoing treatment. Police arrived at the scene shortly after the attack and initiated a search operation; however, they were unable to nab the perpetrators, and no arrests were made. As of the date of writing this report, the investigation was ongoing.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of: - Attack not 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 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. Here, a Hindu businessman was targeted by armed robbers who looted his cash, gold, and other valuables. 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. 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 drives 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 reasonable doubt proven to be driven by motivations other than religious hostility, it will post-facto be removed from the hate crime database.