In an interview with NDTV, Dipu’s father, Ravilal Das, said that he first came to know about his son’s killing through social media. “We started hearing things on Facebook. Then people began telling us he had been badly beaten. After some time, my uncle told me they had tied my son to a tree,” the deceased's father narrated.
The lynching took place during a period of heightened tension in Bangladesh following the death of anti-India and jihadi political activist Sharif Osman Hadi.
The Bangladeshi media reports that the main office of Prothom Alo in Kawran Bazar in Dhaka was attacked by rioting mobs belonging to the Islamist outfit Inqilab Mancha on 18th December. The police tried to calm the protesting mob; however, the rioters refused to stop their violent actions.
Sharif Osman Hadi, one of the most prominent leaders of Bangladesh's 2024 student protests that brought down the government of Sheikh Hasina, had died...
The July Oikya have been alleging that India-backed parties, media outlets, and government officialsin Bangladesh are involved in the "ongoing conspiracies" in the country.