Land dispute in Hindu family turns violent; axe attack video from Bangladesh viral with false communal angle

The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of the graphic nature of the footage.

A video from Bangladesh has been doing the rounds on social media, which shows a man attacking a women and then a man with an axe. Right-wing users are sharing the video claiming that Muslims attacked three Hindus with an axe in the Kaliganj subdistrict of Gazipur in Bangladesh.

Right-wing account ‘Hindu Voice’ shared this video and wrote that Islamic fundamentalists attacked three Hindus with an axe in Kaliganj, Bangladesh. At the time of writing, this video had received more than 32,000 views. (Archived version)

X user ‘AngrySaffron’ also posted this video with a similar claim. (Archived link)

Many other X handles also shared this video with similar claims. (Link 1, Link 2)

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Fact Check

Alt News performed a keyword search using Bengali keywords related to the video, which led us to a March 31, 2025 report in the Bangladeshi newspaper Desh Rupantor. The report states that a man attacked his cousin with an axe due to a land dispute in Chandaiya village in Ward 6 of Kaliganj. According to the report, on March 30, 2025, Ramcharan and his son Jhantu Das attacked Narayan, his wife Giribala and his brother Haradhan Chandra Das with an axe. Four people were reportedly injured in the feud.

We also came across a Facebook post by the Bangladesh Police on the incident, in which the names of the accused and the victims were the same as in the above news article . At the end of the post, the police stated that the incident was being given a fake communal colour.

Bangladeshi fact-checker Shohanur Rahman also tweeted about this matter and said that the accused and the victim in the incident were all Hindus.

Following a land dispute within a Hindu family, one cousin attacked another—both sides in the dispute are Hindu. However, Hindutva propaganda accounts shared photos of the incident, falsely blaming Muslims.

Look how they falsified the incident⤵️ pic.twitter.com/nzyy6xhBjx

— Shohanur Rahman (@Sohan_RSB) April 1, 2025

To sum up, a fight among members of a Hindu family in Bangladesh over a land dispute was wrongly termed by Indian Right-wing social media users as an attack on minority Hindus by the Muslim community in Bangladesh.