“He was not an extortionist,” Sohel’s brother Shakirul Islam Shishir told journalists. He claimed that his brother uncovered several dens of drugs, which angered local councillor Saber Ahmed and Jatiya Party leader Osman Khan. They tried to brand him as an extortionist for making his political career questionable,” Shishir said. "If my brother died in a mob beating, why his body had 26 knife wounds?" On Sunday, he announced that the rate of extortion has been raised from Tk 50 to Tk 100, the local traders claimed.

Source: bd News24 January 08, 2019 16:52 UTC