Staff Reporter :
Police arrested a youth named Zahangir Alam, 30, owner of a cyber-café, from Kalaishree Para area under Brahmanbaria Municipality in the small hours of Tuesday.
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 Ka’aba Sharif in a facebook page with an ill intention to instigate communal clash.
According to the police, Zahangir Alam is the owner of Al-Amin Cyber Café at Harinber Bazar. Police believed that he uploaded the distorted picture hacking the facebook ID of local fisherman Rasraj.
Additional Police Superintendent of Brahmanbaria Iqbal Hossain yesterday said that police produced the detainee before the judicial court and prayed for ten days remand for interrogation.
“The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Shafiqul Islam granted four-day police remand after a hearing,” the Addl SP said.
Meanwhile, a senior police official said that the “distorted” picture was uploaded from a facebook page named Washim BD a few days before conducting synchronized attack on the Hindu community on October 30. Not only that, police have got enough evidences that the same distorted photo was also shared with the facebook IDs of some other persons in Comilla and Chandpur, two adjacent districts of Brahmanbaria, with an ill-motive to embarrass the government.
Police have claimed that, the Washim BD page also contains several other distorted pictures relating to the Islam and Sanatan religions. Security officials feared that these distorted pictures may be used in the future for creating further communal unrest. Against this backdrop, the police are going to send a letter to the facebook authority through Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission [BTRC] to identify the admin of Washim BD page and take action in this regard.
“The distorted picture which had instigated communal unrest at Nasirnagar was sent from a facebook page named Washim BD. The investigators have also found that there were several contents, particularly distorted photos, in that facebook page. We are apprehending that, these contents could be used in the future for creating social anarchy,” Deputy Inspector General of Police, Chittagong Range, Shafiqul Islam had said.
Earlier, the Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque, who was widely blamed for instigating the clash, quoting intelligence sources said that the picture was not uploaded from Nasirnagar by the accused fisherman Rasraj Das.
