Inu gets death threat

Burial cloth sent to party office

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Staff Reporter :
Minister for Information and President of Jatiya Samajtantric Dal [JSD] Hasanul Haq Inu has got death threat on Sunday morning. The threat issuers have also sent a burial cloth to his party office.
“A packet containing a burial cloth was found on the staircase of JSD office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital around 10:00am,” said personal officer to the Minister and also assistant publicity secretary of the party Sazzad Hossain.
He also said that a photo of the Minister with putting cross-mark on it with
red colour and a white paper on which it was written in Bangla with red colour that ‘Death Penalty to Inu for disobeying rule of the Quran’.
“Something was also written on the white paper in Arabic language,” he also said.
“A general diary [GD] has been filed in this connection,” Morshed Alam, Officer-in-Charge [OC] of Paltan Police Station, said.
Earlier on June 16 last year, the banned Islamist militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team issued death threat to Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam received death threat for second time on May 30 by Jamaat-e-Islami for his role in war crimes trial.
Similar threats were issued to 22 other eminent personalities, including Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique, in June last year.
The letter, written on the “official letterhead” of Ansarullah Bangla Team-13, was sent to the office of the DU VC by registered post.
The persons who had got death threat were: journalist Abed Khan, Dhaka University History Department Prof Syed Anwar Husain, Executive President of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee Shahriar Kabir, Liberation War Museum Trustee Mofidul Haque, Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Sammilita Sangskritik Jote President Nasiruddin Yusuf Bachchu, Baishakhi TV CEO Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, Bhorer Kagoj Editor Shyamol Dutta and Executive Editor of the daily Ittefaq Shaheen Reza Noor.
Besides, the cultural personalities were: Ramendra Majumder, Chhatra League General Secretary Siddique Nazmul Alam, Bangladesh Chhatra Moitree former President Bappaditya Basu, spokesperson of a faction of Gonojagoron Mancha Imran H Sarker, leader of another faction of the Mancha Kamal Pasha Chowdhury, Mancha activists Mahmudul Haque Munshi Badhan, FM Shaheen, blogger Kaniz Aklima Sultana, private university teacher Arafat Rahman, journalist Munni Saha, Nabanita Chowdhury and Anjan Roy, noted cultural activists Syed Hasan Imam and Sangeeta Imam.
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