Mob kills minority Hindu man, interim government blames ‘terror’ activities by victim

Hours after a citizen belonging to Bangladesh’s minority religious population was lynched to death by an angry mob on Wednesday (December 24, 2025), the interim government in Dhaka said that the matter was “unfortunate” but added that it was “not at all a communally motivated incident”.

In a press release, the interim administration “strongly condemned” the killing but said that a “particular segment” was trying to project the incident as a “communal attack”.

“From the information provided by the police and from preliminary investigation, it appears that it was not at all a communally motivated attack. It is related to extortion and terrorist activities.

The person killed is top terrorist Amrit Mandal, Samrat who came to the area seeking money and died after clashes with the angry local people,” said a press statement by the interim government of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh police has arrested Samrat’s accomplice Salim with a foreign pistol and a pipegun and that three cases have already been registered in the matter, the press note has said.

“The government has noted with great concern at the same time that a certain segment has made the unholy attempt to highlight the religious identity of the slain person and describe it as a communal attack,” said the press note urging “all concerned sections” to behave in a “responsible” way.