Dipu Chandra Das Lynching: The Videos That Weren't Him

A 40-second clip of Bangladeshi police detaining and dragging a young man while he pleaded in Bengali went viral captioned as footage of police handing Das over to the mob that killed him ^[1][3].

Reverse-image searches by *BOOM*, *Alt News*, and *The Quint*'s WebQoof team traced the clip to November 18, 2025 — a month before the lynching — and identified the man as Abdul Momin, a Dhaka College student detained during protests against ousted premier Sheikh Hasina, not Das [1][2][3].

Dhaka Metropolitan Police additionally confirmed to BOOM and Alt News that the man in the video was not Das ^[1][2].

Versions of the clip posted by Indian social media accounts, including one shared by BJP Youth Wing national secretary Tajinder Bagga, drew hundreds of thousands of views before being debunked ^[1][2][4].

A separate clip showing a man who died after accidentally contacting a live power line was shared with claims it showed 'Mohammad Hassan,' described in posts as a suspect in the Das killing ^[5][6].

Fact-checks by *BOOM* and *The Quint* identified the man as Shahadat Hossain, who was electrocuted while clearing rainwater from a rooftop in Pabna district — roughly 200 kilometers from Mymensingh — with local police confirming he had no link to the Das case [5][6].

The false videos, rooted in a Bangladeshi tragedy, circulated heavily on Indian social media, where political figures and accounts used the misidentified footage to stoke outrage over the treatment of Bangladesh's Hindu minority ^[1][2][4].

Four separate fact-checking teams — *BOOM*, *Alt News*, and *The Quint*'s WebQoof desk in India, plus *The Week* magazine — independently traced and debunked the same and related clips, confirming that a single real tragedy in Bangladesh generated multiple, separately fabricated viral 'documentation' videos [1][2][3][4][5][6].

The Dipu Das videos follow a familiar misinformation pattern with a twist: rather than genuine footage of the actual event stripped of context, both viral clips examined here show entirely different people in entirely different incidents, misattributed to a real and deadly event ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}. The underlying lynching of Dipu Chandra Das was real and is not in dispute; the viral videos claiming to document it, or to show his accused killer, are not ^[1][2]. Always verify who and what a viral video actually shows before treating it as evidence of a specific event.