POBNEWS24, Dhaka, Dec 21, 2025 : Bangladesh is once again going to be completely disrupted by extremist fundamentalist groups. The same violence surrounding the death of Osman Hadi has happened again, as happened on May 5, 2013, with the violence of Hepajat-e-Islam. The whole world has witnessed it. Dargahs, shrines, abodes of saints, graves, crematoriums are not safe anywhere. Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Mohammad Yunus is being talked about and criticized all over the world. United Nations Secretary-General Anthony Guettares has already called on everyone in the country to remain calm.
Meanwhile, a case has been filed at Dhanmondi Police Station in connection with the attack, vandalism, arson and looting of Chhayanaut Bhaban. 300 to 350 unidentified persons have been named as accused in the case.
Saiful Islam, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Dhanmondi Police Station, confirmed the matter on Sunday morning. He said that a case was filed at Dhanmondi Police Station on Saturday night for the attack, vandalism, arson and looting. The plaintiff in the case is Dulal Ghosh, the chief manager of Chhayanaut.
Chhayanaut authorities said that on the night after the news of the death of Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inquilab Mancha, spread, miscreants entered the Chhayanaut building and attacked CCTV cameras, furniture, tabla, harmonium, violin and various rooms. At one stage, these items were set on fire. However, the amount of financial damage caused in the incident has not yet been determined. However, various musical instruments, posters and banners, including various items, were burnt and looted on different floors of this cultural organization called Chhayanaut, which aims to awaken non-communal consciousness, according to a coordinator.
Although Mostafa Sarwar Farooqui, advisor to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the interim government, visited the Chhayanaut building after the incident. During the visit, he reviewed the CCTV footage and assured that the miscreants involved in the incident would be brought to justice quickly, but no one has been arrested so far.
The damage caused by the attack on the media house, especially the Daily Star and Prothom Alo newspapers, did not appear in the newspapers the day after the radical violence. No case was filed to compensate them for the damage they suffered.
It is worth noting that earlier on Thursday night, when news of the death of Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of the radical fundamentalist organization Inqilab Mancha, spread, tension arose in various parts of the country. At that time, The Daily Star, Prothom Alo and Chhayanot Bhaban were attacked, vandalised, looted and set on fire.
On the other hand, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested seven suspects in the beating to death of a young man of traditional religion in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh.
The arrested are Md. Limon Sarkar (19), Md. Tarek Hossain (19), Md. Manik Mia (20), Ershad Ali (39), Nizum Uddin (20), Alamgir Hossain (38) and Md. Miraj Hossain Akon (46).
According to RAB-14 sources, they were arrested in separate raids in different places of the district on Saturday.
Last Thursday night, around 9 pm, a young man named Dipu Chandra Das was beaten to death in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, on charges of insulting the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). An angry mob took the body of the deceased youth to the side of the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, creating chaos and at one stage setting the body on fire so that there would be no trace of the murder.
The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Council said in a statement that the self-interested miscreants have carried out this terrorist attack in a planned manner with the evil intention of blocking the flow of free intellect and free thought, freedom of the press and healthy culture, which is extremely worrying. The council strongly demanded that the government immediately arrest the people responsible for each of these incidents, expose their faces and ensure visible punishment.
