A gang of four youths called 26-year-old Mohammad Julhash out of his Garden Road house in Kazipara at around 7:30pm. They took him to near Purnima Cinema and shot thrice in his chest, cheek, and neck, said the victim's elder sister Bakul Begum.

Informed, the family members of Julhash rushed him to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, where doctors on duty declared him dead.

Julhash, who owned a timber shop in Karwan Bazar, is the brother-in-law of listed criminal Rana, who was shot dead by infamous 'Pichchi Hannan' gang in 1996. Tejgaon police said Julhash was accused in half a dozen cases.

Family members said Julhash had recently been released from jail after a year. They suspected that previous enmity with the Pichchi Hannan gang, who once severed his three fingers, might have something to do with the killing.

In another incident, extortionists shot a tea stall owner in Tejgaon last night as he refused pay toll. Police said a gang of three extortionists entered the tea stall of Tapan Kazi near Gonobhaban High School and shot him at around 8:45pm.

He was admitted to Orthopaedics Hospital with bullet injuries to his leg.