21-year old Hindu man Rhidoy Robi Dash, a barber by profession, was employed in his own barber shop in the bazar. According to Rhidoy’s relatives, a group of local Muslim people including three Clerics took him out of his barber shop at around 8 o’clock on Friday night. They beat him up and handed him over to Karimganj upazilla Government Military camp. The very next day Saturday, his relatives came to know that Rhidoy Rabidash died in hospital while going under treatment.
Murdered Rhidoy’s relatives and local people spoke on camera to the reporter of Somoy TV described the attack as below:
Three Muslim clerics along with the local government administration member and chairman summoned him and took him inside a room. After the victim was beaten at night, the local people were told that they would be allowed to see him the next morning. The military camp made a phone call to the relatives the next morning and communicated that Rhidoy has died.
The Assistant director of Karimganj President Abdul Hamid Medical College hospital Dr. Kamrul Islam Palash told the reporter that the Military staff brought Rhidoy to the hospital in the deed of Thursday night at around 2:10 AM. Later, he died while going under treatment at the hospital ICU (Intensive Care Unit). According the doctor, Rhidoy was lightly beaten. However, he was bleeding through his mouth at the time of admission.
Neither the Military officers nor the Police officers that are in charge of the area refused to talk in front of camera. However, Kishoreganj Military camp’s in-charge Lieutenant-Captain Mohammad Riazul Islam told the reporter that Rhidoy Robi Dash had tried to convert and marry a local Muslim girl, and that he had a plan to transfer the girl.
The Police Super of Kishoreganj told the reporter that the dead body is sent to Shaheed Syed Nazrul Islam Medical College Hospital in Kishoreganj for autopsy. He also said that legal actions are being taken.
Victims: Hindu young man Rhidoy Rabidash and his family
Location of Attack: Noapati union, Karimganj upazilla, Kishoreganj district, Bangladesh
Date of the attack: November 16, 2024
News media reporting: None (Bangladesh news media is grossly ignoring the brutal terrors on Hindus)
Social media reporting by Somoy TV: posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWWy5jts4U