<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Ashraful Alam, better known as “Hero Alam”, registered a general diary (GD) last night (July 24, 2023) after he allegedly received a death threat on the phone.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hero Alam filed the GD with Hatirjheel police station around 11:30 pm, said Abdul Quadir, sub-inspector of the police station.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the GD, “Hero Alam received three calls from an unknown number, threatening to kill him. He received the first call at 9:43 pm on Monday night.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The caller threatened that he would teach him (Hero Alam) a lesson and dump his body in the Buriganga river within seven days,” reads the GD.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hero Alam, an independent contestant of the recently concluded Dhaka-17 by-polls, was physically assaulted while leaving a polling centre in Dhaka’s Banani area on July 17.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Following the assault, Hero Alam's personal assistant filed a case at Banani police station accusing 15 to 20 unidentified individuals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police have arrested several people in a case filed over the assault on Hero Alam. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>