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Ashraful Alam, better known as "Hero Alam", registered a general diary (GD) Monday night after he allegedly received a death threat on the phone.
Hero Alam filed the GD with Hatirjheel police station around 11:30 pm, said Abdul Quadir, sub-inspector of the police station.
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."
"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.
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, according to UNB.
Following the assault, Hero Alam's personal assistant filed a case at Banani police station accusing 15 to 20 unidentified individuals, reports UNB.
Police have arrested several people in a case filed over the assault on Hero Alam.