PTI
 
New Delhi, Jan 22: India has conveyed its concern to Bangladesh over a terror threat to the chief executive officer Richard Larison and nine Indian doctors of Dhaka-based Apollo Hospital and asked it to ensure security for them.

External Affairs Ministry called Bangladesh High Commissioner Liaquat Ali Choudhary in New Delhi on Friday to convey its concern in the wake of the threat received through an e-mail a few days back, sources said on Saturday.

The MEA is also understood to have asked the Bangladeshi government to provide adequate security to the threatened people and the hospital located at Basundhara, a diplomatic enclave near Dhaka.

Larison and nine doctors were threatened by an email sent by a person identifying himself as Abu Sayeed M M Rehman, joint secretary of the joint action committee of three-member group of terror outfits -- Jamait-ul Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh.

The email asked them to leave the country or pay 20 lakh taka (Bangladeshi currency), the sources said.

Dhaka has conveyed to New Delhi that the threat was believed to be a hoax but they were investigating the matter and security had been provided to the hospital and the threatened persons.