Bangladesh has rejected New Delhi’s cost that the latest killing of a Hindu chief was a part of a “sample of systematic persecution” of minorities in that nation.
The physique of Hindu group chief Bhabesh Chandra Roy, 58, a resident of Basudebpur village of Dinajpur district in north Bangladesh, was recovered on Thursday night time. His son has claimed Roy was allegedly kidnapped from his dwelling within the village, about 330 kilometres northwest of Dhaka, and crushed to loss of life.
“It’s unlucky that the loss of life of Bhabesh Chandra Roy has been described as a part of a ‘sample of systematic persecution’ of Hindu minorities underneath the interim authorities,” interim authorities chief Muhammad Yunus’ press secretary Shafiqul Alam advised the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) information company late Monday.
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Mr. Alam, who’s presently accompanying Mr. Yunus to a world convention in Qatar, stated Bangladesh is just not a rustic the place one would discover government-sponsored systematic discrimination in opposition to minorities.
Moderately, he claimed, the Bangladesh authorities protects the rights of all of its residents irrespective of spiritual denominations.
The Bangladesh response got here days after India condemned the alleged abduction and killing of the Hindu minority chief in Bangladesh and referred to as on the interim authorities in Dhaka to reside as much as its accountability of defending the minorities. “This killing follows a sample of systematic persecution of Hindu minorities underneath the interim authorities even because the perpetrators of earlier such occasions roam with impunity,” Exterior Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated in a submit on social media platform X on Saturday.
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Roy’s household had lodged a case with Dinajpur police after his homicide in opposition to 4 named suspects and several other unnamed people.
“The accused took my father to an unknown location and beat him to loss of life in a premeditated method,” Roy’s son 28-year-old Swapan Chandra Roy, alleged in his written criticism.
Swapan Chandra Roy named Atikur Rahman as accused primary, who based on media experiences, runs an off-the-cuff cash lending enterprise.
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Police stated based on the household criticism, Roy borrowed Taka (Tk) 25,000 from Mr. Rahman agreeing to repay it in month-to-month instalments of Tk 3,250 however monetary hardship debarred him from common compensation regardless of the lender’s insistence making him sick.
Mr. Swapan Chandra Roy, within the criticism, stated that on April 17 afternoon the accused went to Roy’s home on two motorbikes and took him away underneath the pretext of an pressing dialogue and added that he acquired a name within the night when a co-accused, Ratan Islam advised him his father had fallen sick.
The accused deserted Roy on a spot close to his dwelling and fled and docs declared him lifeless because the household took him to a hospital.
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Mr. Yunus’s press secretary, nevertheless, stated “on this specific case, we’ve ascertained that the sufferer went out with some people beforehand recognized to him” and the post-mortem report didn’t detect any prima facie signal of bodily damage.
“This however, the authorities have ordered viscera evaluation to conclusively decide the reason for loss of life,” he stated, including that applicable actions could be taken as soon as the viscera report is on the market.
“We invite all quarters to chorus from making fabricated and insightful feedback on the incident,” Mr. Alam added.
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Roy’s son stated his father was a farmer by occupation and in addition served because the vice-president of the native unit of Puja Udjapan Parishad.
Dinajpur’s district police chief Marufat Hossain acknowledged the submitting of the case by Roy’s son.
“We’re taking the matter severely and conducting a radical investigation,” he advised reporters.
Revealed – April 22, 2025 08:37 pm IST
