Staff Reporter :
Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Chuadanga Saima Yunus on Monday got death threat from an unidentified criminal who demanded Tk 10 lakh from her as extortion money.
The caller introducing him as Major Ziaur Rahman, a regional leader of East Bengal Communist Party ML, phoned DC and threatened to kill her family members if the extortion money is not paid immediately, police said.
“A General Diary has been filed with the Chuadanga Sadar Police Station in this connection. Sub-Inspector Sharif Hossain filed the GD,” Additional Police Super Belayet Hossain told The New Nation on Monday evening.
According to the GD a person named Major Ziaur Rahman called the DC at 2:49pm and demanded Tk 10 lakh as extortion. The man told the DC that he came from Kolkata after a long time. A good number of his party workers are in jail. Huge money is needed to release them from the jail and he managed Tk 40 lakh.
Now he needs Tk 10 lakh only. The DC will have to give the money. Otherwise he threatened to kill all the family members of DC, the GD added.
“We’ve identified that the unknown person has called from Madaripur. We are conducting drive to arrest the culprit,” Belayet Hossain said.
