2 journalists arrested for seeking toll
A correspondent and a photojournalist of a regional daily were arrested Sunday night allegedly for demanding toll from villagers at Dhulihar in the Sadar upazila.
The arrested are Nazmul Hossain, Satkhira correspondent of The Probahat, a Khulna based daily, and its photojournalist Joyanta Saha.
Quoting local people police said, the two identifying them as journalists went to the house of Nitai Shaha at the village at about 11 pm and demanded Tk one lakh as toll. They said to him the Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Shahjahan has sent them to take the money as they are going to India. They also threatened to publish a story against them for non-compliance.
Local people caught them and handed over to police.
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