A Supreme Court lawyer, who on August 21 served a legal notice asking Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen to voluntarily resign after he stirred controversy linling New Delhi's role in Bangladesh's politics, claimed to have been threatened with life.
Lawyer Md Ershad Hossain Rashed, according to The Daily Star, filed a general diary with Shahbagh Police Station on Tuesday, seeking security for his life.
In the GD, Ershad mentioned that he had been receiving threats from local and foreign phone numbers since he issued the legal notice to the minister to resign from the office in 48 hours for his "controversial comments."
"Today (Tuesday), an unknown caller called me several times and threatened to shoot me dead," Rashed told The Daily Star this evening.
"The callers did not mention anything about the legal notice during the conversations but asked me 'to solve a problem.' I believe the caller threatened me for serving the legal notice to the minister," he said.
Moudut Hawlader, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, was unavailable for his comments.
While speaking at an event in Chattogram on August 18, the minister said he had requested the Indian government to do whatever necessary for continuation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
