Another accused in the killing of Md Sohag, locally known as Lal Chand, near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in the capital Dhaka was arrested from Bandar upazila in Narayanganj in the early hours of Tuesday.
On July 11, a video footage of the July 9 killing of Sohag, a scrap metal trader, went viral on social media, sparking nationwide outrage.
A team of Rapid Action Battalion-11 in a raid arrested Md Nannu, 27, at a location under Bandar upazila between 1:00am and 2:00am on Tuesday, RAB-11 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel HM Sajjad Hossain said.
鈥榃e have later handed him over to RAB-10,鈥� he added.
On July 10, Sohag鈥檚 elder sister, Monjuara Begum, filed a murder case with the Kotwali police, accusing 19 named people and 15 to 20 unnamed others for Sohag鈥檚 murder and police filed a separate case under the Arms Act in this connection.
With the arrest of Nannu, the number of accused arrested in the murder case rose to eight.
RAB-10 commanding officer Md Kamruzzaman, also an additional deputy inspector general of police, said that they had received the accused at about 2:00pm on Tuesday.
Kotwali police officer-in-charge Md Moniruzzaman said that they had received the arrested accused from the RAB.
鈥榃e will produce him before court tomorrow,鈥� OC, also the investigation officer of the murder case, said Tuesday evening.
Asked about the political affiliation of Nannu, Moniruzzaman said that they would inform about it later.
In the wake of the killing, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its affiliated organisations Juba Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal and Chhatra Dal have expelled five members for their alleged involvement in the incident.
Five expelled members are among the named accused in the case and police has so far arrested one of them, Mahmudul Hasan Mohin.
On July 9, a group of people dragged Sohag from his shop Sohana Metal on Rajani Ghosh Lane and took him inside the Mitford Hospital and hit and hacked him to death with concrete boulders inside Gate 3 of Mitford Hospital, according to police and local people.
The group of people dragged him on the road outside the hospital gate and again hit him and danced while many captured the incident on their mobile phones, they said.聽
Officials involved in the investigation into the killing claimed that police had arrested accused Mahmudul Hasan Mohin from the spot while he was chanting slogans against extortionists in a move to project the murder as the outcome of mob violence.
