Md Ashraful Hossain Alom, popularly known as Hero Alom, registered a general diary (GD) Monday night after he allegedly received a death threat on the phone.
Hero Alom filed the GD with Hatirjheel police station around 11:30pm, said Abdul Quadir, sub-inspector of the police station.
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.
Following the assault, Hero Alom's personal assistant filed a case at Banani police station accusing 15 to 20 unidentified individuals.
Police have arrested several people in a case filed over the assault on Hero Alom.