Within 24 hours of Rana Pratap Bairangi's murder in Khulna, another Hindu man was brutally murdered by sharp weapons on Monday night. Sarat Chakraborty Mani, 40, was a grocery shop owner who was murdered by armed extremists, Hindustan Times reported.
Earlier on Monday, a journalist named Rana Pratap Bairagi was fired upon by unidentified assailants in Jessore district in the Khulna division, killing him. Sarat Chakraborty Mani was reportedly attacked by sharp weapons in the Dhaka suburb of Narsingdi.
Sarat Chakraborty's murder
Chakraborty's grocery shop is located in the Charsindur Bazaar in Palash Upazila area of Narsingdi. Locals say that he was at his shop when he was attacked with sharp weapons by the assailants. He succumbed to injuries on the way to a hospital, Hindustan Times reported.
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Sarat's death has left his wife, Antara Mukherjee, and their 12-year-old son, Abhik, without a guardian. Chakraborty returned to Bangladesh a few years ago after being employed in South Korea.
Sarat Chakraborty had expressed his concern over the recurrent turbulence in Bangladesh. On December 19, he posted on Facebook in Bangla, "So much fire, so much violence in the valley of death...my homeland."
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Activist slams Yunus government
Social activist Bappaditya Basu condemned the murder in an interaction with the Weekly Blitz. He said, "Before the blood of one Hindu in Bangladesh has even dried, another Hindu is being killed," referring to Rana Pratap Bairagi's murder.
The activist added, "There will be no existence of Hindus left in Bangladesh within a few years". He alleged that Muhammad Yunus's interim government was backing the murder of minorities in Bangladesh.
