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Vol. 5 Num 1084 Tue. June 19, 2007  
   
Metropolitan


Extortion Case
Former lawmaker Shaheen sued


An extortion case was filed against former lawmaker and ex-vice president of Bangladesh

Cricket Board Shah Nurul Kabir Shaheen and seven others.

Abdul Halim, headmaster of Ishwarganj Uchakhila High School, filed the case with the local magistrate's court.

Halim alleged that Kabir and his associates demanded Tk 4 lakh from him to make him principal as the school was upgraded to a college.

"I gave Kabir Tk 1 lakh on October 25 in 2005 and I was suspended as I failed to give him rest of the money within a given time," Halim said in his case statement.