DHAKA, August 16, 2025 (BSS) – Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has strongly protested and condemned a report titled “Killing on Jamaat leader’s order” published on Indian news portal NDTV on August 13.  

In a media statement issued here today, the party’s Assistant Secretary General and Chief of Central Publicity and Media Division, Adv. Ehsanul Mahbub Jubair said the report is ‘fabricated and entirely contradictory to reality’.

“The report is false, baseless and ill-motivated and it is not based on reality,” he said. 

“NDTV report alleged that following order of Jamaat leaders, a government official was killed and his body was dragged up a staircase…This claim is absolutely false. No such incident has taken place in Bangladesh,” the statement reads.

It further added that fact-checkers have confirmed that the video shown in the report is actually from Bettiah Government Medical College and Hospital in West Champaran district of the Indian state of Bihar.

“Presenting that footage as an incident linked to Jamaat is extremely misleading and condemnable,” the statement read adding, “Such propaganda by a leading Indian media outlet even surpasses Goebbels-style disinformation.” 

“We have deeply observed that since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian regime, a section of Indian media has been continuously publishing fabricated and politically motivated news against Jamaat-e-Islami in an attempt to mislead the people of Bangladesh as well as the international community,” the statement said.

He urged the Indian media to refrain from publishing such ‘baseless, fabricated and ill-motivated propaganda’ and instead follow the principles of objective journalism.