A Hindu garment worker in Bangladesh was mobbed and lynched last year after being accused of blasphemy, but a video circulating online claiming to show his killer dying after falling onto a live wire has been falsely shared. Local police and the man’s family denied the claims, saying the person shown in the clip had no connection to the 2025 killing, which fuelled a wave of cross-border misinformation between India and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
“Jihadi Hassan Sahadat, one of the key accused for mob lynching of Dipu Chandra Das has been found dead under mysterious condition hanging from electricity wires in Pabana, Bangladesh,” reads an X post shared<\/a> on June 25, 2026. <\/p>\n The 21-second video shows a man lying on a roof with the upper half of his body resting on several live wires as rescue workers and onlookers watch.<\/p>\n Superimposed Bengali-language text on the video reads, “Dainik Sokal: Youth dies of electrocution in Pabna”, referring to a local news outlet.<\/p>\n The X account has previously shared misinformation debunked by AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot comparison of the false X post taken on July 1, 2026, with a red X added by AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Bangladesh’s Hindu minority faced targeted attacks <\/a>in the chaotic aftermath of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster in August 2024 because of their perceived support for her government (archived link<\/a>). Indian media reported that at least\u00a011 Hindus<\/a> were killed between December 2025 and January 2026 (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n Among them was Dipu Chandra Das<\/a>, a Hindu garment factory worker who was lynched following allegations of blasphemy in Mymensingh, north of the capital Dhaka, on December 18 (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n According to police figures released in January 2026, out of 645 incidents involving members of minority groups in 2025, only 12 percent were classified as having a sectarian motive<\/a>.<\/p>\n Comments on Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and X <\/a>\u00a0posts describing the death as “revenge” against Das’ killer suggest users believed the claim was genuine.<\/p>\n But local police and a relative of the man shown in the circulating video told AFP he was not linked to Das’ lynching in any way.<\/p>\n A reverse image search<\/a> on Google using keyframes <\/a>from the false post, combined with a keyword search<\/a>, found the same video shared<\/a> on the Facebook page of Bangladeshi news outlet Dainik Sokal on June 18 (archived link<\/a>). The post is captioned: “Youth dies of electrocution in Pabna”.<\/p>\nAccidental death<\/h2>\n