Media outlets add false communal angle to Dhaka lynching incident
A Muslim scrap trader was lynched in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 9, 2025 following a dispute over extortion money. Multiple Indian media outlets and social media users falsely identified the victim as Hindu, sparking misinformation about a communal angle to the crime. BOOM confirmed that the man killed-Md Sohag alias Lal Chand-was Muslim, and not Hindu.