The acting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Mohammad Abdul Mobarak has claimed to have received a death threat over his personal cell phone by an unknown person on Sunday.
Confirming the incident, Sub-Inspector Abdur Rob of Sher-e-Banglanagar police station said personal secretary of the acting CEC filed a general diary following the incident.
According to the GD, an unknown person made a phone call to the personal mobile phone of the CEC at around 12:20pm and when the CEC received the call, the unknown caller threatened him.
The unknown caller threatened the acting CEC saying: “I am the messenger of your death. Your time period of life has been fixed. Your wife will be a widow and children will turn into orphans very soon.”
According to the GD filed at around 4:30pm, the acting CEC received the threat while he had been at a meeting at his office in presence of Election Commissioner Abu Hafiz, Zaved Ali and Mohammad Shahnewaz.
Police said security measures have been intensified in and around the Election Commission Secretariat immediate after the acting CEC was served the threat.
Police and EC officials said the threat came following his comment on the participation of BNP in the upazila election.
BNP leaders have criticised the comment of the acting CEC and also demanded his resign from his post.
Biplab Kumer Sarkar, deputy commissioner of Tejgaon Division of Police, said they were trying to detect the person, who made the call and issued the threat.
Abdul Mobarak has been made the acting CEC as the CEC Kazi Raqib Uddin Ahmad, had been staying in USA along with his family members since March 3.