2014 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence

[5] In Lohagara Upazila, activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP looted and vandalised shops belonging to Hindus in Hindur Hat in Kolujan area.

[10] In Gazipur District, unidentified miscreants set fire in the homestead of a Hindu family in Bhakoadi Malibari area under Chandpur Union of Kapasia Upazila in the wee hours of 10 January.

In Abhaynagar Upazila of Jessore District, at around 10 am on 5 January 70 to 80 workers of the opposition parties hacked five Hindu men for casting their votes.

At around 6 pm, around 250 workers of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, armed with sharp weapons and sticks attacked the Hindu inhabited Malopara village, where they vandalised 130 houses and set another 10 on fire.

[13] The activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir armed with firearms, Molotov cocktails, machetes, iron rods and sticks chased the Hindus, when about a 100 of them jumped to the Bhairab River and swam to the other side.

[13] On 7 January at night, masked men raided two Hindu houses in Hajrail Rishipalli of Manirampur Upazila in Jessore District.

[8] In Bagerhat District again islami fundamentalists burnt saswati puja mandap of Rdha Gobinda temple on 16 January in Morrelganj Upazila.

[5] On 5 January in the morning, hundreds of workers of the opposition parties attacked Kornai village in Sadar Upazila of Dinajpur District.

[5] In Lalmonirhat District, Hindus by and large abstained from voting, due to threats from the opposition parties coupled with lack of security from the administration.

[10] On 23 February 2014, The Daily Star, a national English newspaper, published a summary report submitted by the police authority to the country's High Court.

According to this report, around 160 incidents of attacks and atrocities on Hindus took place in 21 districts after the 5 January parliamentary polls, causing loss of Hindu properties worth ৳4 million.

Such atrocities included injuring Hindu people, damaging their houses, temples and business establishments and setting them on fire, and looting valuables causing a loss of around ৳4 million in 70 of those attacks.

The Bangladesh government has decided to set up special tribunals to punish the perpetrators of crimes against the minority communities, including the Hindus.