Guwahati: A man was arrested in Assam’s Kamrup district on Tuesday for allegedly posting content on social media that supported the lynching of a Hindu youth in Bangladesh, police said.
The arrest followed a complaint filed by the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal and the International Hindu Parishad Bajrang Dal.
Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered at Rangia police station, and the accused was taken into custody after a preliminary investigation, a police officer said.
The arrested youth allegedly posted the video of the lynching and wrote a post in support of the crime on Facebook and Instagram, police said.
Police took Mohd. Sheif Akhtar Ali, a resident of Ward No. 3 in Rangia town, into custody for allegedly posting a video on social media in support of the killing of a Hindu man, Dipu Chandra Das, who was lynched by a mob in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district on Thursday night.
The brutal lynching of Dipu Chandra Das, a garment factory worker who lived as a tenant in the Dubalia Para area of Bhaluka Upazila, has triggered widespread anger and condemnation across the world. He was reportedly stripped naked, hanged, tied to a pole and his body was later set on fire by the mob.
The killing has also drawn attention to allegations of severe persecution faced by Hindus, a minority community in neighbouring Bangladesh.
