Acting chief election commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mobarak received death threat by phone yesterday.
An unknown person had threatened him with death by mobile phone while he was staying at his office in the afternoon, the CEC said while talking to reporters at EC secretariat in the city’s Sher-e-Banglanagar.
Confirming the incident, Sub-Inspector of Sher-e-Banglanagar police station Abdur Rob said Alamgir Hossain, personal secretary of the acting CEC, had filed a general diary in this regard.
According to the GD statement, an unknown person made a phone call to the personal mobile phone of the CEC around 12:20pm and threatened him with death.
Quoting the PS to the acting CEC what he mentioned in the statement of the GD, SI Abdur Rab said the unknown caller issued threats to the acting CEC as saying: “I am your Jom (angel of death). Your time period of life has been fixed. Your wife will be a widow and children will be orphan very soon.”
The CEC was conducting meeting with election commissioners, Abu Hafiz, Zaved Ali and Mohammad Shahnewaz when he received the phone call.
Police and EC officials said the acting CEC had been issued such a threat after he made a remark over the participation of the BNP in the upazila election.
BNP leaders have criticised the comment and also demanded his resignation from the post.
Police said security measures had been intensified in and around the Election Commission Secretariat.
Biplab Kumer Sarkar, deputy Commissioner of Tejgaon Division of police, said they were trying to detect the person.
Abdul Mobarak has been made the acting CEC as the CEC Kazi Raqib Uddin Ahmad had been staying in the USA along with his family members immediate after the 10th national parliament election held in January this year.
Source: Dhaka Tribune