Police on Tuesday detained a man for allegedly giving death threats to Md Ashraful Hossain Alom, popularly known as Hero Alom, over the phone.
The detainee, Abu Ahmed, has been held in Sylhet's Golapganj area, said Hatirjheel police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Awlad Hossain.
He said a person has been detained in connection with a general diary (GD) filed with Hatirjheel police station for threatening Hero Alom. “He will be brought to Dhaka and we will interrogate him. More details will be released later.”
Hero Alom filed a general diary (GD) after he allegedly received a death threat on the phone.
Hero Alom filed the GD with Hatirjheel police station around 11:30pm on Monday.
According to the GD, Hero Alom received three calls from an unknown number, threatening to kill him. He received the first call at 9:43pm on Monday night.
“The caller threatened that he would teach him (Hero Alom) a lesson and dump his body in the Buriganga river within seven days,” reads the GD.
Hero Alom, an independent contestant of the recently concluded Dhaka-17 by-polls, was physically assaulted while leaving a polling centre in Dhaka's Banani area on July 17.