Killing of Lal Chand Sohag

On 9 July 2025, Mohammad Sohag, a 39-year-old scrap dealer also known as Lal Chand, was publicly stripped, hacked, stoned to death, and his corpse stomped on in front of Mitford Hospital in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. The graphic nature of the killing and its circulation on social media sparked widespread public outrage and ignited debates concerning the country’s political climate, social tensions, and law and order situation. The attackers were identified as members of various wings of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, mainly Chhatra Dal and Jubo Dal which subsequently expelled them following the incident.