Amid the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, another Hindu youth has been murdered. On the 6th of January, a 28-year-old Sudeb Halder, son of Subrata Halder of Betora village in Sadar upazila, was found hacked to death in the Rampur Jorapol area of Nabagram Union of Sadar Upazila. He owned a mobile phone shop in the local Baukathi market. Sudeb was the youngest of two brothers and two sisters.
According to the police, Sudeb was travelling back home following closing his shop where he was stabbed by ‘miscreants’. On the 7th of January, the locals and his family found his hacked body lying in a crop field one kilometre away from his home and informed the police. Jhalakathi Superintendent of Police Ujjwal Kumar Roy said, “A blow to the head was found. It is believed to be a murder. The body will be sent to Jhalakathi Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy. A murder case will be filed in this regard.” The police also said that Sudeb was stabbed multiple times and had deep wounds on his head and neck.
Sudeb’s father, Subodh Halder, said, “My son has no enemies. I don’t understand who killed my son and why. I want the police to uncover the truth and ensure that the killers are brought to justice.” Amid the ongoing persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, the murder of Sudeb has raised an uproar yet again. Bangabandhu Prakasholi Parishad Secretary Sushanta Dasgupta said, “Every day, murders are happening in Bangladesh, somewhere or the other. We have investigated and found that Sudev Haldar, who was killed, had no personal enmity with anyone. We believe that he was killed only because he was a Hindu. By killing Hindus in this way, a message is being sent that this Bangladesh does not belong to Hindus. He was killed to scare Hindus into leaving Bangladesh.”
Sudeb’s brother said that since childhood, he was living in Kolkata with his uncles and it was only during the COVID pandemic that he went back to Bangladesh to open his own mobile shop. He has claimed that it is possible that he was hacked to death following an argument with some people about mobile repair at his shop.
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