Journo gets death threats

Shafiqul Islam Jewel, a senior journalist of the daily Kalerkantho, has received death threats from unknown miscreants for publishing reports over corruption of some former law makers.

The newsman told reporters that four unknown youths riding two motorcycle stopped his car in Natun Bazar area around 3:00pm and threatened him to kill. At one stage, they tried to pick him up from the spot in Dhaka on October 22.  

Meanwhile, the miscreants told the journalist, “You hampered the image and carrier of our leaders publishing news against them. You damaged the party image. Taking your life, we will take revenge.”

However, the miscreants fled the scene when the jaywalkers gathered the spot.

Later, becoming panicked, he filed a general diary in this regard on October 26.

Earlier, the journalist also received threats from unknown attackers around 8:00pm in Bashundhara Residential area in the capital on September 5 .
 

Dhaka/Nasim