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Outlawed Jama'tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has threatened to kill the judges of the Supreme Court, Journalists in Barisal and blow up the office of Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) in Comilla, reports agencies
The threat came Sunday in a letter addressed to Adv Mahbubey Alam, president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).
The letter said: "Six judges of the Supreme Court and 75 per cent judges of the High Court are venal; even they don't know what justice really is. So, these elements deserve to be condemned to hell."
"You cannot save them with gunmen," warned the letter mailed to the SCBA president by registered post under the name of JMB joint secretary Maulana Ali Azam.
In Comilla JMB allegedly threatened to blow up the office of BARD if the centre does not stop anti-Islamic training.
Sources said anonymous callers, introducing themselves as JMB members, had been giving the threat for the last few days over telephone.
Besides, they had also sent a letter with a piece of burial cloth by post to BARD Assistant Director Abdul Mannan on Wednesday.
Panic ran high among officials of BARD following such repeated threats over phone.
Security measures have been tightened at BARD and some important places in the town.
Meanwhile in Barisal JMB in a letter threatened three journalists of Banaripara upazila with death on Sunday.
The Daily Samakal Banaripara correspondent Al Mamun Laskar, special correspondent of the local Daily Ajker Barta Mizanul Islam and the Daily Ajker Paribartan correspondent SM Mainul Islam Sabuj received the death threats in separate letters.
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