Awami League-backed councillor-elect threatens injured journalist at hospital

A journalist who was hospitalised after being attacked while performing his professional duty during Saturday’s city electionson Sunday said the ruling Awami League-backed councillor-elect Sheikh Mohammad Hossain Khokon threatened him at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Mostafijur Rahman Sumon, a crime reporter of online news portal Agami News, was badly beaten allegedly by the supporters of Awami League-backed candidate Mohammad Hossain Khokon when he was taking photos of the candidate’s supporters carrying sharp weapons and frightening voters at Zafrabad in the capital’s Rayerbazar during election hours.

With head injuries, Sumon was admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday and the councillor-elect Sheikh Mohammad Hossain Khokon visited him at about 1:00pm on Sunday and asked why his name was mentioned his report.

The injured journalist told New Age, ‘he was insisting me for dropping his name if any FIR [First Information Report] is filed over the attack. He tells me why he should be named as he claimed he did not know the attackers’.

‘I told him that the attackers were definitely his men and were brandishing with sharp weapons before I was filming them freighting voters,’ said Sumon, who was planning to file a FIR.

Mohammad Hossain Khokon denied the allegation and told New Age that he visited the injured journalist and promised that attackers would be identified and brought to the justice.

More than 36-hour after the attack, Tejgaon police division deputy commissioner Biplob Bijoy Talukdar said they were not sure who attacked Sumon under what circumstances.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net