Passenger Humira Mohamed, 26, said she felt scared for her safety after 46-year-old driver Jitu Miah refused to allow her and five-year-old support dog Peanut into the back of his car.
On October 17, 2021, an entire fishing village in Rangpur's Pirganj upazila was set ablaze allegedly because a Hindu teen hurt the religious sentiments of the locals through a derogatory social media post. For this "crime", Poritosh Sarkar was put into solitary confinement for eight whole months.