Hundreds of men armed with sticks set fire to the victim’s darbar in the Kushtia district. A video of Pir Abdur Rahman, 65, allegedly insulting the Qur‘an from three years ago circulated on social media. Police failed to stop the violence. The authorities and NGOs slammed security failures, calling for investigations, but no arrests have yet been made.
A case has been filed against four named individuals, including a local Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader, and 180-200 unnamed others, over the murder of self-proclaimed "Pir" Abdur Rahman, also known as Shamim Reza and Jahangir, who was killed in a mob attack at his shrine in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia.
Victim’s brother Fazlur Rahman filed the case at Daulatpur Police Station in the early hours of Tuesday, said its Officer-in-Charge Arifur Rahman.
The accused are Khaja Ahmed, a leader of the upazila unit of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and former president of the district unit of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, local Jamaat activist Rajib Mistri, Khelafat Majlish upazila unit president Asaduzzaman Asad, and Safi, a madrasah teacher.
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