Amid the furore over the lynching of a Hindu man in Bangladesh last week, a video apparently showing the victim, Dipu Chandra Das, pleading with the police had gone viral.
Widely circulated as the 27-year-old garment factory worker’s ‘last video’, a man was seen repeatedly telling the cops that he was innocent and that he had done nothing wrong. Social media posts claimed that despite his pleas, he was handed over to the mob which had accused him of blasphemy and was protesting outside the factory where he worked.
Deepu Chandra Das kept crying.He kept pleading But the Bangladesh police handed him over to die at the hands of radical muslims mob.
— Tajinder Bagga (@TajinderBagga) December 23, 2025
Deepu kept saying again and again
Sir,I am innocent.Sir,I am innocent .Sir, I have done nothing wrong. pic.twitter.com/3Jr5jNKWJp
Das was killed by a mob in Mymensingh on December 18. The agitators lynched him, tied him to a tree and set his body on fire.
The attack on Das came amid the countrywide protests over the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a leader of the Inqilab Mancha cultural group and a key figure in last year's anti-government protests, at a Singapore hospital. He succumbed to bullet injuries six days after he was shot by unidentified gunmen in Dhaka.
Several netizens, including BJP youth wing national secretary Tajinder Bagga, had shared the video claiming that the police left Das at the mercy of the angry mob.
However, it has emerged that the viral video is not of Das, but an old clip of a Dhaka college student Abdul Momin. Fact-check groups AltNews and BOOM confirmed that the clip is not related to Das’s lynching.
AltNews said that their probe into the authenticity of the video showed that the clip predates the Mymensingh incident by a month. There are other videos of Momin, too, from the same night which confirms that it had nothing to do the recent lynching incident, and that he was one of the students detained during the protests against the ousted Bangladeshi ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina in November. He is also seen wearing a jersey with ‘Momin’ on the back.
BOOM also said that AIG Dhaka Metropolitan Police Shahadat Hossain confirmed that the video is not related to Das.
Bangladesh govt to take responsibility of Dipu Chandra Das's family
Education adviser for Bangladesh's interim government, C.R. Abrar, visited Das’s family yesterday and termed his killing “an inexcusable and brutal crime”. He announced that the state will support Das’s child, wife and parents.
Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus's office also confirmed that the family will receive financial aid and ongoing support. To date, 12 people have been arrested in connection with the murder.
Hadi’s murder and Das’s lynching have strained the relations between India and Bangladesh further, with both the countries summoning each other’s envoys and suspending visa services.
