In April 2021, a Hijra person and their family in Charghatina village under Ullapara Municipality in Sirajganj faced an order from local community leaders to sell their ancestral homestead and leave the village within one month because of the person's gender identity and association with the local Hijra community. The person at the centre of the incident was Monirul Islam, aged 27, a child of local resident Hafez Mistri. According to Monirul's family and local residents, Monirul had experienced changes in physical appearance and gender expression from adolescence, particularly after the age of 15. These changes were met with hostility and discriminatory treatment by some members of the village community. Monirul and the family were subjected to social exclusion, derogatory remarks and repeated humiliation. As the hostility continued, Monirul eventually began associating with other Hijra people in Ullapara, seeking companionship and acceptance within a community that shared similar experiences of marginalisation. However, Monirul's decision to join the local Hijra community provoked further opposition from influential village elders, who began pressuring the family to distance Monirul from the community.

On 13 April 2021, a group of local community leaders convened a traditional village arbitration meeting, known as a salish, at Charghatina Hafizia Madrasa to discuss Monirul's association with the Hijra community. During the meeting, the village elders reportedly objected to Monirul's gender identity and involvement with other Hijra people. According to subsequent reporting, the meeting also raised an allegation that Monirul's father had failed to pay a contribution of Tk 100 towards a local cemetery. The community leaders ultimately issued a decision ordering Monirul and the entire family to sell their land and house and leave Charghatina village within one month. The order affected not only Monirul but also elderly parents, siblings and other family members living in the same homestead. The family reportedly pleaded with the village elders to allow them to remain in their home, but the demand to leave was maintained. Following the arbitration, the family continued to face pressure to comply with the decision, while allegations also emerged that Monirul and a brother had been subjected to humiliation and physical assault. One of the village elders, Md. Shahed Haji, subsequently acknowledged to Prothom Alo that the decision had been made deliberately to put pressure on the family so that Monirul would abandon involvement with the Hijra community.

Speaking to journalists after the incident became public, Monirul described a long history of rejection and discrimination linked to being Hijra. Monirul explained that the decision to associate with other Hijra people had followed years of being treated differently by neighbours and excluded from ordinary social life. Monirul said that the community had never fully accepted them and that joining other Hijra people had offered an alternative to continued isolation. The order to leave the village placed the entire household under considerable distress. According to Monirul, four brothers lived at the family residence, including two who had families of their own, alongside their elderly parents. Family members were regularly subjected to derogatory comments and feared losing the home in which they had lived for years. Monirul expressed particular anguish that a decision about their gender identity and social relationships had resulted in a collective punishment against parents and siblings. The family's experience became public when local journalists reported that village leaders were attempting to force an entire household from its property because one family member was Hijra.

After repeated pressure from the village elders, Monirul's elder brother, Majnu Mia, approached Ullapara Model Police Station on Tuesday, 27 April 2021, and filed a complaint naming 12 individuals allegedly involved in the arbitration and the order to leave the village. Police subsequently conducted an operation in Charghatina late that night and arrested two local community leaders, Manjur Alam and Mecher Ali, in connection with the complaint. The arrested men were produced before a court on Wednesday, 28 April. Ullapara Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Dipak Kumar Das confirmed that the family had been ordered to leave the village because Monirul was Hijra and had joined the local Hijra community. Police said that action had been taken following the family's complaint and that efforts were underway to address the allegations against those responsible. The case brought the village arbitration decision under police investigation after the family sought protection from the pressure to abandon its home.