Staff Reporter :
Two investigation reports, prepared by Police Bureau of Investigation [PBI] over the synchronized attacks on Hindus in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar, have find out that the “distorted photo” of Kaaba Sharif was stored and edited in the cellular phone of Zahangir Alam.
The prime suspect Zahangir Alam, 30, owner of Al-Amin cyber-café, arrested on November 28, is now in the jail.
The picture was deleted after sometime. The two inquiry reports also said.
Another arrested fisherman Rasraj Das was not involved in the incident by any means. The PBI cyber crime experts did not find any evidence of storing or editing the “distorted photo” in Rasraj’s mobile phone, sources said.
The Detective Branch of Brahmanbaria District on Monday submitted the investigation reports to the District and Session Judge Court. Earlier, the PBI sent the investigation reports to Detective Branch of Brahmanbaria District asking to take necessary action.
Rasraj Das, however, did not get bail on Tuesday and the District and Session Judge Md Ismail Mia fixed January 16 for additional hearing of the case.
“The cellular phone and memory card of Rasraj Das were seized and sent to the Inspector of PBI Cyber Crime Unit on December 16 for verification along with evidence and distorted picture. After examination, the PBI have submitted the reports,” said Mizanur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Brahmanbaria District Detective Branch of Police.
Expressing the same view, the forensic experts of PBI on November 28 in another report, submitted to the district police, also mentioned that the “distorted photo” was not uploaded from Rasraj Das’s mobile phone.
From the very beginning, the arrestee Zahangir Alam, son of Benu Mia, resident of Harinber village of Haripur union under Nasirnagar Upazila, is believed to be the uploader of a distorted picture of Kaaba Sharif in a facebook page with an ill-intention to instigate communal clash.
Police also believed that he uploaded the distorted picture hacking the facebook ID of local fisherman Rasraj.
A group of religious zealots on October 30 had carried out a synchronised attack on the Hindus in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar upazila, vandalising around 100 homes and at least five temples and looting valuables over a Facebook post.
The attackers also beat up over 100 people of the minority community, which went on through eight Hindu localities, including Kashipara, Daspara, Ghoshpara, Duttapara and Nomoshudropara, said Abdul Quader, officer-in-charge of Nasirnagar Police Station.
