Sell it cheap or face torture

When a portion of his shop in Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar was demolished by the men of lawmaker Haji Salim in April 2019, Aftab Ahmed did whatever he could to save the rest of his shop in a century-old building. But just two months later on the night of Eid (June 5, 2019), when many were on holiday, Awami League leader Haji Salim's men reappeared and razed the building, known