Bogura imam held under DSA for ‘defaming PM’

Police yesterday arrested an imam in Bogura's Sherpur upazila under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for "making defamatory remarks against the prime minister and spreading anti-state propaganda on Facebook."

The arrestee, Maolana Abdur Rahman Didari, 27, is the imam of Bagra Colony Jame Mosque under Kusumbi union, said Sanatan Chakraborty, additional superintendent of police in Bogura Sadar Circle.

The case was filed by Zulfikar Ali Sanju, general secretary of Kusumbi union Awami League, he said, adding the police arrested Didari from Bagra Colony area around 2:30am.

During the primary investigation, he admitted that he had posted a couple of Facebook statuses out of anger since former Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was sentenced for life for committing war crimes during the Liberation War, the police official.

Didari was produced before the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Omar Faruq with a seven-day remand plea yesterday, said Gaziur Rahman, additional superintendent of police in Bogura (Shepur Circle), adding that the court, however, remanded him for a day.