Cyber police arrests two

Cyber police in Bogura on Sunday claimed to have arrested two men including a college teacher for disseminating propaganda against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and rumours about human heads required for Padma bridge construction.

They also confiscated two laptops from the possession of the arrestees.

Emran Mahmud Tuhin, inspector of Detective Branch of police in Bogura, said a case was filed in this connection against the arrestees under sections 24-1(A) and 25-1(B) of the Digital Security Act 2018.

Police identified the arrestees as Masudur Rahman alias Titu, 48, son of Abu Jafar Mondal, from Jhopgari area of the town; and Benjur Ahmed, 28, son of Sadequl Islam, from Pashchim Chhatni village in Bogura’s Adamdighi upazila.

Masudur, a lecturer of English department at Baluahat Degree College in Sonatla upazila, was arrested in Jhopgari area while Benjur, an online outsourcing freelancer, was arrested in Jamil Nagar area of Bogura town, police also said.

In order to spread the propaganda and rumours, the two arrestees had been making numerous false and fabricated posts, images and videos on a fake account and a fake page on Facebook, said Shafiul Alam, sub-inspector of Bogura Cyber Police in the case statement.

In a press release issued yesterday, Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan, superintendent of police in Bogura, said Masudur is the administrator of the fake Facebook account that was being used to spread propaganda against the prime minister and the government.

Benjur is the administrator of the fake Facebook page where a fake video clip of a captured woman, who allegedly abducted a child for collecting human heads for Padma bridge construction, was posted. The video clip had 1.05 lakh views on Facebook and it was shared 2,838 times, the release also said.