Zafar Sobhan was unable to explain how the 'minority' Muslim population in India surged from 9.84% in 1947 to 14.09% in 2011 despite supposed 'lack of safety' while the Hindu population in Bangladesh has been on a serious decline.
Meanwhile, Dwarka Shankaracharya Swami Sadanand Saraswati said that the governments of India and Bangladesh should meet and discuss the predicament of Hindus.
BBC imparted a political angle to the attacks by claiming that Hindus were largely 'supporters of Sheikh Hasina' and that any attack on them was the consequence of their political affiliation and not religious identity.
The victim could not identify her perpetrators since their faces were covered. At that time, her husband was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Khulna.
ABC and several other media outlets are shrewdly trying to establish an apocryphal narrative that Hindus in Bangladesh are being persecuted not for their religious identity but for the alleged support for Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League.
Mohammed Zubair and Alt News recently published a 'fact-check' to dismiss religious persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, but in doing so, they underscored the extent of brutalities perpetrated by illegal Bangladeshi migrants in India.