Bangladesh: Ex-madrasa teacher arrested as main accused in Hindu worker's lynching

Bangladesh constabulary connected Wednesday arrested erstwhile madrasa teacher Yasin Arafat, the premier accused successful the sidesplitting of Hindu idiosyncratic Dipu Chandra Das, according to section media reports.Yasin was arrested successful Sarulia, wrong the Demra constabulary presumption jurisdiction, with enactment from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.According to section media, Yasin, 25, lad of Gazi Mia and a nonmigratory of South Hobirbari successful Valuka, allegedly led the mob that attacked Dipu astatine the mill gross and played a cardinal relation successful dragging his assemblage to the Square Masterbari country successful Mymensingh territory and mounting it connected fire.Yasin Arafat had been serving arsenic an imam astatine the Shekhabari mosque and had taught astatine a madrasa for the past 18 months. Following the sidesplitting of Dipu Chandra Das connected December 18, helium went into hiding for 12 days, moving betwixt assorted madrasas successful Dhaka and adjacent securing a teaching relation astatine Suffa Madrasa nether a mendacious identity.So far, 21 radical person been arrested successful transportation with the case, with 9 detainees giving confessional statements earlier a court.The apprehension came aft a prolonged spell of unit successful Bangladesh that began with the sidesplitting of Sharif Osman Hadi, a 32-year-old pupil person and a cardinal fig successful August 2024 uprising that led to Sheikh Hasina's exit from the country.Hadi's decease triggered wide unrest, including attacks connected minorities. Dipu was caught successful the ensuing mob unit and was killed the aforesaid time implicit allegations of blasphemy.