Hindus are not safe under Yunus Raj in Bangladesh, businessman beaten to death; danced on dead body too

Hindus have been facing persecution in Bangladesh ever since the Mohammad Yunus government came to power. A Hindu businessman was murdered in the capital Dhaka, which has once again raised questions about the safety of Hindus in the neighboring country. Lal Chand Sohag was a scrap dealer and his lynching sparked outrage across the country. Hundreds of students took to the streets on Saturday and accused the interim government of failing to prevent mob violence. Police have arrested five people in connection with the lynching of scrap dealer Lal Chand Sohag, two of whom were carrying illegal weapons.

Students at several university campuses in Dhaka held rallies to protest the incident on Wednesday. The extortionists beat Sohag, a junk dealer, to death in front of Mitford Hospital in the old Dhaka area. In a video of the incident that went viral recently, Sohag was beaten to death with pieces of concrete slabs and then after his death was confirmed, the attackers were seen dancing on his dead body.

“Who gave you monsters the right to kill people? When extortionists are creating havoc, what is the interim (government) doing?” were the slogans students chanted on their campuses, according to eyewitnesses and local media reports. Students of private universities like BRAC University, NSU, East West University and state-run Eden College held demonstrations on Saturday, while protests erupted at the premier Dhaka University and Jagannath University soon after the video of Lal’s brutal killing went viral.

Lal Chand’s sister Manjuara Begum (42) filed a murder case at the capital’s Kotwali police station on Thursday, according to the Pratham Alo newspaper. The case names 19 accused and also involves 15-20 unidentified suspects. A group of activists of the youth wing of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) allegedly killed Sohag, a former activist of the same outfit, BDNews24 said. The party said it immediately expelled the four culprits accused of the lynching from the party.