Rajshahi police arrested a man on charge of making defamatory statement by his Facebook post on the prime minister and the government.
Rakibul Islam Rakib, a student of Bagha Shahdaullah Degree College and also this year’s HSC examinee, was detained on Thursday and the next day he was shown arrested in a case launched against him with Bagha police station for the alleged offence. He is son of Kalim Uddin, from Amodpur village under Bagha Municipality.
Officer-in-Charge of Bagha police station Ali Mahamud said: “Rakib is a Jamaat-e-Islami activist.”