Dhaka: The Detective Branch (DB) of Bangladesh police on Thursday arrested another prime accused in connection with the murder of Hindu Youth, Dipu Chandra Das, in Mymensingh district.
The arrested accused, identified as 25-year-old Md Yasin Arafat, is a resident of South Hobirbari’s Karaitola Mor in the district and was apprehended on Wednesday from the Sarulia area under the Demra Police Station in Dhaka.
The arrest was made with the assistance of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), the DB said in a statement.
On December 18, 2025, a mob lynched Dipu Chandra Das, a worker in a garment factory, in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district.
According to reports, Dipu Das, who was beaten to death by a mob over alleged blasphemy charges, had his body hanged and set on fire.
The Daily Star, citing Mymensingh’s Additional Superintendent of Police, Abdullah Al Mamun, stated that a factory official had informed Bhaluka police that a group of workers attacked Dipu inside the factory, accusing him of making “derogatory remarks about the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)” in a Facebook post.
Factory sources told The Daily Star that the assailants later took Dipu out of the factory premises, where residents also joined the attack, resulting in his death.
However, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-14 Company Commander in Mymensingh, Md Samsuzzaman, told The Daily Star that investigators found no evidence suggesting the deceased had posted or written anything on Facebook that could have hurt religious sentiments, adding that neither residents nor fellow garment factory workers could point to any such activity by the victim.
According to investigators, Md Yasin Arafat played a leading role in the incident, allegedly leading a group of people by raising slogans at the factory gate, actively participated in the brutal assault and was also involved in his death.
The DB further said that the accused also led the act of dragging the victim’s body with a rope and later burning it in the Square Masterbari area.
The murder has been described by police as a brutal killing in one of the country’s major industrial zones.
The DB noted that although Md Yasin Arafat is a permanent resident of Bhaluka, he had been living elsewhere for the past 18 months.