A fake journalist has been jailed on charge of demanding extortion from the land office in Cox’s Bazar Sadar. The youth named Saimon Sarwar Kayem, 25, is son of one Nurul Alam of Yusuperkhali village under the upazila. “Saimon demanded extortion from a staff of the office posing to be a senior journalist of ‘S Channel’ on Wednesday,” Assistant Commission (Land) and Executive Magistrate Pankaj Barua told the Dhaka Tribune. “Later he was jailed for a month on charge of extortion and hindering work of public servant,” Magistrate Pankaj added. Police detained seven more fake journalists on extortion charge in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj last month.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 09, 2017 03:33 UTC