Fake coordinator demands extortion at wedding venue in Bakshiganj
Bakshiganj (Jamalpur) Correspondent: A complaint has been received that a person posing as a coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement and a journalist demanded a ransom of one lakh taka at a wedding in Merurchar Kha Para area of Bakshiganj, Jamalpur. Later, when the real coordinators were informed, the extortionists who identified themselves as fake coordinators fled, leaving behind a motorcycle. After receiving the information, the police seized the motorcycle left by the extortionists from the scene. On the spot, it was learned that a marriage took place between cousins and sisters with the consent of two family members in the Kha Para area of Merurchar in the upazila on Friday night, October 18. After the marriage, the alleged coordinator Shahriar Ahmed Sumon, son of Sona Mia of the Kha Para area, Jisan and Fazlu…
