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Burnt over toll

Jubo League man pours boiled water on tea vendor for failing to pay daily toll

Staff Correspondent
Thirty-year-old Jahangir Alam, who makes his living by running a tea stall in front of Phulbaria Super Market, has been having a bad time with his business.
On top of it, for the last 10 days, the wet weather has been driving away his customers. Jahangir, father of a six-month-old daughter, of Old Dhaka, was earning barely enough for his basic needs.
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But he was under immense pressure from Kalu Miah, office secretary of Phulbaria unit Jubo League.
For the space in front of the market, Jahangir has been paying Kalu Tk 150 every day as toll for the last one year. But for the last 10 days, he could not pay him his "dues".
Kalu turned up at the tea stall around 3:00pm yesterday and asked Jahangir to pay the money and went away saying he would come again.
As the Jubo League man came back an hour later, little could Jahangir imagine how far a "leader" could go if he failed to pay the toll.
"I told him again that my tea stall is not running
well due to the rain and other reasons," Jahangir told The Daily Star last night in a moaning voice.
“Kalu Miah became very angry and hurled abuse at me. I told him I had no money, wanted to pay him the 'dues' later."
Kalu became so angry that he picked up a kettle of the stall and poured boiling water on Jahangir.
Writhing in pain, Jahangir took a rickshaw and went to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on his own.
Doctors said he had suffered 20-25 percent burns.
Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, said they had heard about the incident and dispatched a police team to the spot. "We are
yet to ascertain that the attacker was a Jubo League leader."
According to Jahangir, Kalu extorts from some other stalls in front of the market.
Jahangir's younger brother Alamgir Hossain sought exemplary punishment for the culprit, not taking his political identity into account.
The Jubo League leader could not be reached for comments.
Meanwhile, local Jubo League activists confirmed that Kalu was a member of the local Jubo League unit.
However, they rejected such allegations against Kalu, and said Jahangir and Kalu had a quarrel and at one stage, "Jahangir himself poured boiled water on his body. ”