DHAKA, July 16, 2025(BSS) - Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) today claimed that scrap trader of the old city Lal Chand alias Sohag was brutally killed following a business feud.

DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali in a press briefing at the DMP Media Centre said that all the killers of Sohag would be brought to book immediately and exemplary punishment will be ensured to stop recurrence of such heinous crime.

He said Md Rizwan Uddin Ovi (31), another accused of Sohag killing case, has been arrested from Patuakhali. 

With the arrest of Ovi, police so far arrested nine persons for their involvement in the killing and the rest of the accused would be arrested soon, the Commissioner added.

Additional Commissioner of the DMP SN Md Nazrul Islam said that the police during the investigation into the Sohag murder case found the personal and business rivalry. 

Sohag was involved in the business of stolen wire of Palli Bidyut Samity under the shelter of Pillu commissioner, a nephew of Haji Selim during the time of previous government, Nazrul said.

He added, “Recently another group of local youths got involved in the same business side by side with Sohag and business rivalry erupted from there”.

The DMP Commissioner further said that In-charge of Chalk Bazar Police Outpost Ms Darwar caught one Mahbub and Mahin from the spot and the rest people were arrested later from different parts of the country.

He said that misleading information regarding the first information report (FIR) of the killing has been circulated through social and mass media. 

A copy of the FIR has been circulated in the social media that had been refurnished later by the elder sister of the victim Manjuara Begum where finally 19 people were made accused, the commissioner added.

Lal Chand alias Sohag, a scrap trader of old city, was brutally murdered by a group of miscreants near gate number-3 of the Mitford Hospital on July 9 last.