While going to report on drug consumption in Sokhipur, Tangail, four journalists were alleged to have been victims of a ‘mob’ at the hands of a BNP leader and his followers. Not only that, but following an extortion case filed by the BNP leader, the police sent the four journalists to court in handcuffs. They were sent to court on the afternoon of November 14, 2026. Earlier on Friday night, the incident took place in the Deobari area of Dariappur union of the upazila. The arrested journalists are—NTV Digital’s Sokhipur upazila representative Abdur Razzak Sujan, Daily Manobkantha’s Sokhipur representative Morshed Khan, local weekly Sokhipur Barta online in-charge Sheikh Monir, and Sujan’s assistant Sanim Mia.
