Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday said legal action has been initiated against those involved in the killing of Lal Chand alias Sohag.

BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday questioned whether the government is being lenient on the killers of a scrap trader in front of Mitford hospital due to what he said its silent support for such incidents of mob violence.

It was a murder that stunned the nation, not only for its barbarity, but for what it revealed about the society we have become.

Police launched an investigation with the highest priority, he said

Protests were held on campuses and in some districts last night demanding swift trial and exemplary punishment for those involved in the brutal murder of Lal Chand, alias Sohag, in Old Dhaka’s Mitford area.

"They've orphaned my two children… I want all of them to be hanged."