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Cops receive death threat

Phone calls, texts pour in

Staff Correspondent
Anonymous callers phoned many police officers throughout the day yesterday, threatening to kill the law enforcers and their family members.
Many cops also received text messages in their mobile phones from a particular sender, who warned policemen that their activities were under watch.
Officers-in-charge (OC) at different police stations in the capital were among those targeted by the callers.
Masud Karim, OC of Dhanmondi Police Station, said he received no fewer than 700 phone calls in the last two days.
"They were bad-mouthing us and threatening to kill us and our family members. Most of the calls were not from local numbers, but the callers were Bangalees," he noted.
Identifying himself as "jag janata", a sender sent the Bangla text message (in English alphabet). Addressing the police as brothers, the message said cops' activities were under watch and the Awami League's tenure had ended.
Contacted, Narayanganj Police Super Sayed Nurul Islam said he saw the message in his phone in the afternoon. Chittagong police super AKM Hafiz Akhter also confirmed receiving the message and said some of his colleagues also informed him about the matter.
Masud Karim said he came to know that two Facebook webpages, Basherkella and Deshpremik, posted the phone numbers of 40 police stations as an act of vengeance.
Visiting the websites, The Daily Star found names and photographs of senior police officials posted in Basherkella Chittagong page, with a caption asking visitors to remember the cops' faces for teaching them a good lesson.
Sheikh Maruf Hasan, deputy commissioner (Ramna) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said OCs of Dhanmondi, Ramna and Shahbag police stations informed him about receiving threats over the phone.
DC (Mirpur) Imtiaz Ahmed of DMP
said officials under his zone also complained of receiving similar threats.
“As law enforcers, we often receive threats from criminals. But this time around, the threats are nonstop," he added.
Detective police were trying to track down the numbers.
"As most of the callers were using VoIP numbers, it was difficult to identify them immediately,” mentioned Imtiaz.
Monirul Islam, joint commissioner at Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division of DMP, said they were not taking the threats seriously.
"The sms was sent in bulk from a VoIP number. We are trying to track it down," he added.
Sources at police headquarters said though many officers there received the message, the inspector general of police did not receive it as of yesterday afternoon.