Hindu woman brutally stabbed in a targeted attack amid ongoing Hindu genocide in Bangladesh.

Case ID : e274bd4 | Location : Chandpur District, Bangladesh | Date of Incident : Wed, 9 July, 2025

Case ID : e274bd4

Chandpur District, Bangladesh

9 July, 2025

Hindu woman brutally stabbed in a targeted attack amid ongoing Hindu genocide in Bangladesh.

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Shahmahmudpur Union in Chandpur district, Bangladesh, a Hindu woman was brutally attacked in her own home by unidentified extremists. According to reports, the Hindu victim, 46-year-old Kajal Chakraborty, was stabbed in the neck and left hand while she was asleep in her house. The attack occurred while her two sons were asleep in the adjacent room. When they heard the screams of their mother, they came to rescue her but found her critically injured, gasping for life. By the time the accused had already fled. She was immediately taken to Chandpur Government General Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where she was undergoing treatment. The victim’s younger son, Pradeep Chakraborty, stated, “We do not have conflict or enmity with anyone. I strongly demand a proper investigation into the matter and identification of the perpetrators.” Furthermore, he also stated that valuables were looted from their homes. The assault appears premeditated and targeted, further contributing to the rising pattern of attacks on the Hindu minority in Bangladesh. This incident is a stark reminder of the atrocities Hindu minorities face in Islamic states like Bangladesh, which has only grown manifold following the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5, 2024. The instability had created an environment where extremist violence against the Hindu minority escalated. Reports indicated a surge in mob attacks targeting Hindu homes, many of which were set ablaze. Women were reportedly abducted and raped during these violent events. Additionally, multiple temples, including the historic Manasa Mata temple, were destroyed, further amplifying fear within the Hindu community.

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. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu woman was brutally attacked and stabbed by extremists without any provocation while she was asleep in her house. It has also been reported that no valuables were looted, indicating the attackers came specifically with the intention of killing the Hindu woman. 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, it must be viewed within the broader context of targeted violence intended to unsettle Hindu populations in regions where they constitute a vulnerable minority. 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 specific religious markers 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.