Journalist leader gets death threat

Staff Correspondent: Md Kamruzzaman Kajal, former finance secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), has received a death threat from unknown miscreants.

Kajal said five to six unknown miscreants riding a microbus hit him from behind at Hatirjheel on Monday. They were also trying to pick him up on the microbus, he added.

Locals rescued him and sent him to Suhrawardy Medical College in the city.
Kajal filed a general diary with Hatirjheel Police Station in this connection (GD No-1256).

Kajal, also a special correspondent of the news  agency, banglasangbad24.com, received another death threat over phone last October.

Kajal had filed a GD with Shabagh Police Station in connection with the threat back then. 

Different journalists’ organizations, including Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), Dhaka Journalist Union (DUJ), Khulna Divisional Journalist Forum, Dhaka (KDJF) and Satkhira Journalist Club, Dhaka (SJCD), expressed concern over the death threat to a professional journalist.

The leaders demanded arrest and punishment of the culprits involved in the incident, in press statements.


risingbd/Dhaka/Nov 30, 2018/Mukul