Shawdesh desk:

A leader of the ruling Awami League filed a case against the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s Rajshahi district unit convener Abu Sayed Chand reportedly for ‘issuing death threat’ against prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a recent public meeting.

Abul Kalam Azad, general secretary of Baneshwar Union AL general secretary, filed the case against Chad early Monday under the Anti-Terrorism Act, said Faruk Hossain, officer-in-charge of Puthia Police Station.

The police officer said that they were conducting raids to arrest the BNP leader.

Earlier, Abu Sayed Chand, at the party’s divisional rally in Rajshahi on Friday, issued the death threat against prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

‘We have only one point of demand — sending Sheikh Hasina to the graveyard. Sheikh Hasina must be sent to the graveyard. We will do whatever it takes to make Sheikh Hasina to resign,’ he said.

Meanwhile, the High Court on Monday asked the deputy commissioner and the superintendent of police in Rajshahi to report to the court whether BNP leader Abu Sayed Chad was arrested for ‘issuing death threat’ against prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a recent public meeting.

Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman issued the directive as deputy attorney general Imran Ahmed Bhuiyan drew the court’ attention to social media report where the BNP leader allegedly said that the prime minister was needed to be put in grave.