JU journos file GDs upon BCL leader's 'threats'

Two Jahangirnagar University-based reporters filed two general diaries (GDs) on Wednesday evening, alleging that General Secretary of JU unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League Razib Ahmed had threatened them for publishing news.

Saif Uddin Abir of the daily Manobkantha, and Nur Alam Himel, of  banglanews24.com, filed the GDs with Ashulia Police Station seeking security.

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The journalists said they were threatened over the phone.

Morshad Ali Mollah, sub-inspector of Ashulia, said, "Steps would be taken after investigation."

Banglanews24.com on March 12 reported on vandalising of four local buses by the followers of the BCL leader in front of the campus, after a bus hit the leader's motorbike at Savar.

The Manobkantha report on February 28 described how more than a dozen students had been locked out of their room of a hall for about two days for refusing to join a procession to greet Razib after he was also made vice president of the central BCL committee.

Journalist Himel was threatened with "dire consequences" and Manobkantha's Abir with "action". The BCL leader, however, denied threatening them, saying, "I talked to them after being a victim of misinformation."