Dhaka: There is no direct evidence that the Hindu youth, who was lynched to death in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh, had made any derogatory remarks hurting religious sentiments, an official told local media. Dipu Chandra Das was brutally killed in a mob lynching over blasphemy accusations by a Muslim coworker at his factory. The mob on the night of December 18 killed Das and then hung his body from a tree and set it on fire over allegations of insulting Islam. However, Company Commander of Rab-14 in Mymensingh, Md Samsuzzaman, told leading Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star that “no evidence was found indicating that the deceased had written anything on Facebook that might have hurt religious sentiments”. He also mentioned that neither the locals nor the workers at the garment factory could point to any such activity. “Everyone is now saying that they did not personally hear him (Dipu) say anything of that sort. No one has been found who claims to have heard or seen anything themselves hurting religion... When the situation became volatile, he was forcibly pushed out of the factory to protect the factory,” Samsuzzaman told The Daily Star. The official stated that two people were initially detained in connection with the incident after the videos went viral, and subsequently, based on interrogation, five more were taken into custody. (IANS)
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