Death Threat to PM: Rajshahi BNP Leader Chand Arrested

Law enforcers have arrested Rajshahi BNP Convener Abu Sayeed Chand for issuing death threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Sources said a team of police apprehended him at a check-post at Beripara area in Rajshahi metropolitan city around 10:30am.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) Commissioner Anisur Rahman confirmed the arrest.

Addressing a rally of BNP at Rajshahi on Friday, Chand threatened to send the PM to graveyard.

He made such a statement at a public rally of metropolitan and district BNP at Shibpur High School ground in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi.