The lynching of a poor Hindu laborer Dipu Chandra Das in Bhaluka area of Mymensingh district in Bangladesh has created shock. This incident is another example of religious fanaticism and mob violence. Now on this matter, Bangladesh’s exiled writer Taslima Nasreen has released a video on social media and raised questions on the role of police in the lynching of Dipu Das.
Taslima Nasreen is deeply saddened by this incident and has raised questions on the role of the police and has appealed for help to the victim’s family. Dipu Chandra Das worked as a laborer in a factory and had an ordinary life. Taslima has claimed that Deepu had a dispute with a Muslim colleague over some issue. To avenge this, he was brutally murdered.
To take revenge, Dipu Das’s colleague spread a rumor among the crowd that Dipu had made objectionable remarks against the Prophet. On hearing this, the frenzied mob attacked Dipu. They started scratching him, beating him and finally burnt his body.
Once the police had saved Deepu and taken him into custody and brought him to the police station, that is, Deepu was under police protection. Taslima Nasreen has shared a video, in which Deepu is seen declaring himself innocent in police custody. The video shows Deepu wearing a blue shirt and pants and talking to police officers, where he presents his stand saying that he is innocent and it is all a conspiracy by his colleague.
Nasreen asked whether there were people with Jihadi thinking in the police, who pushed Deepu to death? He also threw light on the plight of Deepu’s family. Deepu was the sole breadwinner of his family, supporting his disabled father, mother, wife and child. What will happen to his family now? Will anyone help them?
The police had initially detained Deepu to protect him from the mob. But what happened after that is a big question. Did the police hand him back to the mob because of his fundamentalist thinking? Or did the mad people push the police and take Deepu out? The crowd celebrated after the incident and presented the violence as a ‘jihadi festival’.