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]]>The statement was issued by the office of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus following a comprehensive review of police records covering the entire year. According to the data, a total of 645 incidents involving minority communities were recorded across Bangladesh between January and December 2025.
The government said that while every such incident is a matter of concern, the findings indicate that the majority were criminal in nature rather than driven by communal hostility. Out of the total cases, 71 incidents were identified as having a communal element.
These included 38 instances of vandalism at temples, eight cases of arson, one case of theft, one murder, and 23 other incidents such as threats to damage idols, provocative content circulated on social media, and damage to worship structures.
Police registered cases in 50 of the incidents with communal links, and arrests were made in an equal number of cases. In the remaining instances, authorities said preventive steps or further investigations were carried out.
The statement comes amid heightened scrutiny of minority safety in Bangladesh following recent killings of Hindu individuals, which had prompted strong reactions from New Delhi and renewed diplomatic attention to the issue.
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]]>Throughout religious processions in numerous regions of the nation in over the last week, religious conflicts have erupted between the dominant Hindu and minority Muslim groups.
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The arson incident, which took place late Sunday in a village in Rangpur district’s Pirganj Upazila, roughly 255 kilometers from Dhaka, was carried out by a crowd of around 100 persons, according to local media.
Assistant Police Superintendent Mohammad Kamruzzaman told reporters that the police raced to a fishermen’s area as tensions rose over a rumor that a young Hindu man from the village had ‘dishonored religion’ in a Facebook post.
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According to PTI, the violence began with an alleged blasphemy incident at a Durga Puja pavilion in Cumilla, near Chandpur and roughly 100 kilometers from Dhaka, prompting the deployment of paramilitary forces in more than half of the administrative districts.
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After a video went viral on social media, religious radicals began flocking to the Mandap neighborhood about 9 a.m. According to police, members of law enforcement agencies arrived at the mandap where Hindu worshippers were celebrating Durga Puja in a relatively short period.
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