Raveena Tandon has shown great concern regarding the circumstances of how a 15 year old boy named Utsav Mondal was beaten up by a mob inside a police station in Bangladesh. The incident occurred in the Sonadanga area of Khulna after Utsav Mondal was accused of making derogatory comments regarding Prophet Muhammad on social media. It was further reported that he had sustained such injuries and died of them. However, Khulna Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner (South) Mr. Mohammad Tajul Islam later spoke to India today and informed that the boy is safe and receiving medical treatment.
Raveena posted her opinion regarding the controversy on X (formerly Twitter), stating, “Heartbreaking. This world is back to the dark century i.e medieval ages….”.
Heartbreaking . This world is going back to the dark medievial ages …. https://t.co/yd5tn8tTYo
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) September 6, 2024
Raveena Tandon has also condemned the issue of violence against the minority communities in the case of Bangladesh, which in the ongoing violence, Raveena was inscribed. She had written, “I extend solidarity to the attacked and demand to stop this violence immediately. This is why it is very important for world leaders and opinion makers from India to condemn and help stop these atrocities and to protect the image and the rights of all persons. But we cannot stay quiet and ignore such pain.”
Around the last hour of the day i.e. around 11:45 PM, a group of local madrasa boys brought in the fifteen-year-old boy, called Utsav Mondal because they claimed he had made “objectionable comments” about the prophet Mohamad on a facebook posting. With the news spreading, it wasn’t just that the principal shipped students and even members of the Imam Association began coming out, joined and demanding punishment to Mondal by lynching him over the post and I said very severally.
“Mohammad Tajul Islam, the students stated that at best Utsav should be passed upon the laws maintained by them and was illegitimate. Other than the deputy commissioner’s promise that necessary legal actions will be taken, no other promise was guaranteed to the protesters. By the evening time, the number of people increased to almost one thousand aggravating the situation further even.
A rumor about Utsav being murdered seeped out through the speakers of a mosque for a while; it served to calm the crowd who had been stirring up tensions. Still, when it became evident that he was alive and in the police’s grip, there was again commotion and the crowd wanted Utsav dead and his body brought to them.
The situation had, by midnight, grown worse. In front of police, military and navy personnel, the angry villagers stormed the police station and beat Utsav mercilessly brute ignoring her presence.
Eventually, Utsav who suffered serious injuries was saved by soldiers and transported to a hospital. On Thursday morning, authorities confirmed that he has been moved to a military hospital where he is recovering, and is stable. He was accused of blasphemy, and police made assurances that the required legal measures will be undertaken.
