"Recurring Attacks On Minorities": India On Hindus Attacked In Bangladesh

India called on Bangladesh to firmly deal with communal incidents in the country on Friday. "We continue to witness a disturbing pattern of recurring attacks on minorities as well as their homes and businesses by extremists," External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.

New Delhi highlighted the "troubling tendency" of Bangladesh to attribute such violence to personal rivalries, political differences, or extraneous reasons. Flagging this, Jaiswal said that "such disregard only emboldens the perpetrators" and further causes fear and insecurity among minorities.

"We have repeatedly addressed this issue in earlier briefings and continue to see a disturbing pattern of recurring attacks on minorities, their homes, and businesses by extremists in Bangladesh," Jaiswal said.

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According to the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, the reported cases of communal violence stood at 51, including 10 murders, in December 2025.

India had highlighted in a statement last month that there have been more than 2,900 incidents of violence against minorities, including cases of killings, arson, and land grabs, which have been documented by sources during the tenure of the interim government. "These incidents cannot be brushed aside as mere media exaggerations or dismissed as political violence," Jaiswal had said.

Osman Hadi, a prominent leader of Bangladesh's student uprising in 2024, was shot in the head by masked gunmen on December 12, 2025, in Dhaka.

After Hadi's death, mobs in Dhaka staged mayhem, setting alight the main offices of mass circulation newspapers Prothom Alo and Daily Star and two progressive cultural groups, Chhayanat and Udichi Shilpi Goshthi, in Dhaka. 

Violence Against Minorities

A 40-year-old Hindu woman has allegedly been gang-raped by two men, who also tied her to a tree and cut off her hair in central Bangladesh's Kaliganj, a sub-district of Jhenaidah. 

The woman was raped the day a Hindu man, Khokon Chandra Das, died after being attacked and set ablaze by a mob in the Shariatpur district of Bangladesh. Das had managed to escape after jumping into a pond and died of his injuries on Saturday.

On December 24, Amrit Mondal, another Hindu youth, was allegedly lynched by a mob in Kalimohar Union in Bangladesh. The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh condemned the killing but claimed that Mondal was an extortionist and there was no communal angle to his murder.

Dipu Chandra Das, 25, was also lynched by a mob on December 18 after being falsely accused of blasphemy. His body was also hung from a tree and set on fire.

India has raised concern about what it has called the "unremitting hostility" against minorities under the Yunus government in Bangladesh, and asserted it is keeping a close watch on the developments in its neighbourhood.

The Bangladesh government has said it is committed to protecting minorities.