Jimmy's SMS threat traced

The threatening message sent to star national hockey forward Russel Mahmud Jimmy was traced by the law enforcement agencies yesterday. The mobile phone from which the SMS was sent on July 18, which threatened that Jimmy will be apprehended by Rapid Action Battalion if he did not take part in the inter-club transfers, was said to be registered at a local shop in Keraniganj under the name of Kamal with an address of Banglabazar in Old Dhaka.
The SIM was used till July 18 when the message was sent, after which it was switched off permanently, informed a source inside the Bangladesh Hockey Federation yesterday. The source, on condition of anonymity, also said that the person using the SIM had a few SMS exchanges with recently-dissolved interim committee member Shahidullah Dolon, who is also a joint-secretary of Abahani's hockey committee. Dolon is known to have a personal vendetta against the general secretary of BHF and wanted to be the general secretary of BHF's interim committee.