{"id":11017,"date":"2026-04-11T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:27:43","slug":"130195302-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11017","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Spiritual leader beaten to death by mob over viral video &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130195299,imgsize-31460,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/130195299.jpg\" alt=\"Bangladesh: Spiritual leader beaten to death by mob over viral video\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A mob beat a self-proclaimed spiritual leader to death in Bangladesh\u2019s Kushtia district on Saturday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>According to news agency AFP, Shamim Reza, who was believed to be in his 60s, succumbed to his injuries after hundreds of people stormed his residence and thrashed him with sticks.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>According to the report, the mob was angered after an old video of the man resurfaced online on Friday. It allegedly showed him claiming that those who wrote the Quran were illiterate and those who read it were worse off.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>\u201cSensing that something might happen, police went to the spot, and the administration tried their best. But an angry mob of more than 200 people attacked his residence,\u201d chief administrative official Touhid bin Hasan told AFP.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>After the incident, Jahangir was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Police sources told AFP that Jahangir had been briefly arrested in 2021 for making comments that angered villagers. They added that the video that circulated on Friday was recorded during that time.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Bangladesh police spokesman AHM Sahadat Hossain said an investigation was underway.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Mob attacks are becoming more common in Bangladesh. According to the report, at least 153 people were killed in mob violence from August 2024 to September 2025.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Saturday\u2019s killing was the first since the Bangladesh Nationalist Party swept to power in February.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/bangladesh-spiritual-leader-beaten-to-death-by-mob-over-viral-video\/articleshow\/130195302.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mob beat a self-proclaimed spiritual leader to death in Bangladesh\u2019s Kushtia district on Saturday.According&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5453,27017,27022,27019,27021,27018,27020],"class_list":["post-11017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bangladesh-nationalist-party","tag-bangladesh-spiritual-leader-mob-killing","tag-kushtia-district-violence","tag-mob-attack-bangladesh","tag-police-investigation-mob-violence","tag-shamim-reza-death","tag-viral-video-controversy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}