The brutal homicide of 43-year-old scrap dealer Lal Chand Sohag in Dhaka has not solely shocked Bangladeshis but additionally a number of individuals world wide, who’ve slammed the Mohammad Yunus-led interim authorities for the sheer lawlessness that at present prevails within the South Asian nation.
The ghastly homicide happened on Wednesday (July 9) in entrance of Sir Salimullah Medical School, Mitford Hospital in Dhaka. Sohag, who ran a enterprise referred to as Sohana Steel, held a robust grip in the marketplace. His rivals, Mahmudul Hasan Mohin and Sarwar Hossain Titu, allegedly demanded a 50 per cent stake within the enterprise or common funds as a replacement.
For the previous two to 3 months, the accused had been demanding a big sum of extortion cash from Sohag each month. On Wednesday, after they discovered Sohag alone, Mohin and 4 or 5 others attacked him, hitting him with stones and beating him mercilessly after stripping him bare, inflicting extreme accidents to his head and different components of his physique.
Sohag, the one breadwinner of the household, died on the spot, and the grotesque video of his killing has now gone viral on social media.
Not surprisingly, there was no intervention from the general public, and no one stopped Mohin out of worry as a result of he was a candidate for the place of Normal Secretary of the Chawkbazar unit of the Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal (Youth Wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion-BNP). There are additionally allegations towards him of extorting cash from distributors on the footpath close to Mitford Hospital and from chemical merchants. Additionally it is rumoured that he really helpful individuals for class-three jobs on the hospital in change for big sums of cash.
Sohag was lured from his store to the hospital compound beneath the pretense of a peace assembly, solely to be ambushed by a gaggle of 40 to 50 males, Sohag’s kin stated. Each the sufferer and a number of other of the accused have been reportedly concerned within the native Jubo Dal, the BNP’s youth wing.
A case over the homicide was filed on Thursday, July 10, on the Kotwali police station within the capital. The sufferer’s sister, Manjuara Begum (42), filed the case. Nineteen people have been named within the FIR, whereas one other 15 to twenty unnamed individuals have been accused.
In the meantime, Asif Nazrul, Legislation Advisor within the interim administration, stated on Saturday that the case will probably be transferred to the ‘Speedy Trial Tribunal’ and preparations could be made to make sure the trial of the incident is performed within the shortest potential time.
Since Muhammad Yunus took energy in Bangladesh in August 2024, there have been quite a few unprovoked and violent assaults towards journalists, law enforcement officials, minorities, and people related with the Awami League Occasion.
There are allegations of killings, arbitrary imprisonment on false felony expenses, significantly of journalists, unchecked mob violence, and incitement of spiritual violence, akin to assaults on Bangladeshi Hindus and the destruction of Hindu temples. No steps have but been taken in Bangladesh to carry the perpetrators of those allegations to account.