Special Correspondent: The Modi-led Indian government continues its anti-Muslim agenda and has now started targeting Bangladesh through malicious conspiracies.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the BJP regime under Narendra Modi and its loyalist Indian media outlets are using religion to foment discord in Bangladeshi society. In a recent attempt, the Indian media was exposed for pushing an anti-Muslim narrative under the guise of portraying Hindus as victims in Bangladesh.

The Bangladeshi fact-checking organization Rumor Scanner has debunked Indian media’s false claim in the Mitford murder case. Indian outlets deliberately misrepresented the murdered individual, Sohag, as a Hindu. In reality, Sohag—whose full name was Lal Chand Mian alias Sohag—was the son of Ayub Ali and worked as a scrap trader. Despite this, Indian media falsely portrayed him as Hindu to mislead the public and give a communal color to the incident.

Sohag was brutally murdered on July 9 in Dhaka. To spin a false narrative of Hindu victimhood and stoke religious tension in Bangladesh, Indian media intentionally withheld his full name and background. The aim was to justify interference in Bangladesh under the pretext of protecting minorities.

Analysts say Modi’s “godi media” is attempting to create religious divisions in Bangladesh in the same way it has sown unrest through terrorism and extremism in Pakistan under the banner of Fitna al-Khawarij. Now, the regime’s propaganda machinery is targeting Bangladesh to provoke sectarianism and justify future interference.

The exposure of this false propaganda further reveals India’s agenda to destabilize Muslim-majority countries in the region through deceit and disinformation.