bangladesh The Delhi High Court on Sunday (May 10, 2026) rejected the bail plea of Hindu saint celibate Chinmoy Krishna Das, who is facing trial in a trial court in connection with the murder of a lawyer in 2024. He was sent to jail after being denied bail by a court in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong, prompting protests by his followers in Dhaka and other places.
Protests turned violent in Chittagong where junior public prosecutor Saiful Islam Alif was killed. Chinmoy Krishna Das’s lawyer Apoorva Kumar Bhattacharya told reporters, ‘The High Court bench rejected our bail plea as the process of recording the statements of witnesses was going on in the lower court in Chittagong.’
Apoorva Kumar Bhattacharya said that two judges – Justice K.M. A bench of Justices Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Tahir, however, fixed Monday for hearing of bail pleas in four other cases against Chinmoy Krishna Das. The Chittagong Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal on January 19 framed charges against former ISKCON official Chinmoy Krishna Das and 38 others in connection with the death of the lawyer in Chittagong and initiated a trial against them.
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Chinmoy Krishna Das’s lawyer, while seeking bail, said that the saint has been facing problems in jail due to illness for a long time. Earlier on April 30 last year, the High Court had granted him bail in the treason case on charges of insulting the national flag of Bangladesh, but the Supreme Court later stayed the bail order.
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In the year 2024, Chinmoy Krishna Das’s organization ‘Samlito Sanatan Jagran Jot’ then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina After his removal from power, several rallies were organized condemning the attacks and discrimination against people of the Hindu community. According to the data of 2022 in Bangladesh, the number of Hindus is about eight percent of the approximately 17 crore population.