The West Bengal Police on Saturday (December 20, 2025) denounced ‘disingenuous’ attempts to draw a parallel between the recent murder of Dipu Chandra Das in Bangladesh and the lynching of a father-son duo in Murshidabad in April. 13 accused persons were promptly arrested in the Murshidabad case, and a strong chargesheet was filed. The statement comes after several BJP leaders took to social media, in the wake of the Bangladesh incident, to refer to the communal clashes in Murshidabad in April 2025 when Haragobindo Das and Chandan Das were lynched to death. Reacting to the police statement, BJP leader Amit Malviya, in a social media, post wrote, “Mamata Banerjee must stop hiding behind the West Bengal police. The brutal murder of Haragobindo Das and his son, Chandan Das, in Murshidabad, West Bengal, who were dragged from their home and killed by Muslim radicals, is not an isolated instance of the targeted killing of Hindus.”Communal violence had erupted in Murshidabad in April this year during a protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill.

Source: The Hindu December 21, 2025 23:27 UTC