Dhaka, Dec. 21 -- Police have arrested a man on charges of threatening to kill Abdul Hannan Masud, a senior joint chief coordinator of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and a potential candidate for the Noakhali-6 constituency.

The arrestee, Israt Raihan Ome, is the son of former chairman of Charishwar Union Parishad Abdul Halim Azad, police said.

He was arrested around 12am on Saturday in Hatiya Upazila's Charishwar Union, according to Md Saiful Alam, chief (OC) of Hatiya Police Station.

Earlier, on the night of Dec 18, Masud's uncle Shamshal Tibriz, chief coordinator of the Hatiya Upazila unit of the NCP, filed a general diary (GD) with the police station.

According to the GD, a Facebook account named "Rupak Nandi" publicly threatene...