Journo held under Sec 57 in Khulna

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UNB, Khulna :
Police arrested a local journalist from his residence in Dumuria upazila on Tuesday in a case filed under section 57 of the ICT Act over a Facebook post ‘demeaning State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda’.
A local man, Subrata Mazumder, filed the case with Dumuria Police Station against Latif Morol, 40, Dumuria correspondent of ‘Dainik Probaha’, said Sukumar Biswas, officer-in-charge of Dumuria Police Station.
According to the case statement, Morol in his Facebook post allegedly criticised the junior minister as some goats distributed by him (minister) among poor people in Dumuria died soon after the distribution.

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