Bangladesh’s 2025 crime landscape is a nightmare fueled by regime change. Police tallied 181,737 cases, dominated by 21,936 assaults on women and children—eclipsing 3,785 homicides, 12,740 burglaries, and a dacoity boom to 1,935.
Since Muhammad Yunus assumed interim power, security has crumbled. Bonik Barta’s breakdown reveals deeper woes: 702 heists, 1,101 snatchings, 601 cop ambushes, 66 riots, 988 expedited trials, alongside 81,738 varied crimes.
Public fury peaked with Roza Mani’s murder—a 4.5-year-old whose body was discarded near Dhaka’s Bijoy Sarani after vanishing from Tejgaon. This tragedy mirrored over 1,000 child exploitation reports in the capital, linked to campuses and workplaces everywhere.
Expert Tauhiful Haq of Dhaka University’s social research institute decries the ‘frightening escalation.’ ‘Unsettled politics post-overthrow has ravaged order, hitting females and minors hardest, with rising contract kills and crowd executions,’ he observed. Solutions lie in ironclad policing.
The Yunus era’s violence wave demands accountability. Without bold steps to enforce justice, Bangladesh risks deeper societal fractures, endangering generations.