The youths who beat up and hacked 19-year-old Nahid Mia during the New Market clashes on Tuesday have primarily been identified and are under police surveillance, said multiple sources, including law enforcers.
This newspaper has talked to at least 20 shopkeepers and Dhaka College students, who identified the youth in the dark blue T-shirt as 19-year-old Nahid Mia, a delivery man of a computer accessories shop, named Data Tech Computers, on Elephant Road.
Police have filed a case against former New Market thana BNP president Makbul Hossain and former general secretary of the unit Jahangir Hossain Patwari for obstructing police from discharging duties, assaulting law enforcement officers, and damaging properties.