Unrelated old video falsely shared as visuals of Muslims stabbing Hindu devotee Jatan Saha in Bangladesh - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
October 25, 2021
A video is being shared on social media claiming it as visuals of Muslims stabbing Hindu devotee Jatin Shah to death at a Durga pandal in Bangladesh. According to the recent Isckon press release on the Bangladesh attacks, two devotees named Pranta Chandra Das and Jatan Chandra Saha were announced dead in the attack on the Isckon temple in Choumoni. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of Muslims stabbing Hindu devotee Jatan Saha to death in Bangladesh.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows an old land dispute related murder in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This incident took place on 16 May 2021 at the Pallabi area in Dhaka. Shahinuddin, a businessman in Dhaka’s Pallabi area was brutally murdered by the former member of Bangladesh Parliament MA Awal Haveli and his associates over a land dispute of 10 acres. This video has nothing to do with the recent violent attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE
On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, similar visuals were found in a video published by the ‘News 24 YouTube’ channel on 20 May 2021. This video reported it as the visuals of a man brutally hacked to death at the Pallabi area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Shahinuddin, a businessman in Dhaka’s Pallabi area was reportedly stabbed to death over a land dispute of 10 acres. According to the details provided in the description,  the chairman of the Islamic Democratic Party and the former member of Bangladesh Parliament MA Awal Haveli was trying to forcefully occupy 10 acres of the land belonging to the Shahinuddin family. Following  Shahinuddin’s resistance to selling his land for a lesser price, on 16 May 2021, MA Awal and his associates killed Shahinuddin in front of his 6-year-old son Mashrafe.
Reporting the same, a few other Bangladesh news channels published videos and articles. They can be seen here, here, and here. Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) team arrested the prime accused MA Awal Haveli and others involved in this murder in May 2021.
When this old land dispute murder video is being falsely circulated as the recent visuals of Muslims stabbing Hindu devotee Jatan Saha in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Police issued a press release mentioning the details of this video. Bangladesh Police clarified that the video circulating on social media is related to the Shahinuddin murder case in Pallabi.
To sum it up, a video of an old land dispute murder in Dhaka is falsely linked to the recent attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh.