Police have arrested a businessman for brutally torturing a day labourer on suspicion of theft in Amtali upazila of Barguna after a video of the incident went viral on social media.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Amtali police station AKM Mizanur Rahman said after seeing the video on social media, the police members rescued and treated the worker, Abdur Razzak, 20.
Police arrested the grocer, Kabir Hawlader, soon after Razzak's brother Shamsul Alam filed a written complaint at the police station on Thursday. He was sent to jail pending an investigation after police produced him before a court on Friday.
Shamsul Alam said the accused called Razzak to his shop on Wednesday and beat him up mercilessly along with other people, accusing him of theft.
A video of the incident was first seen on social media on Wednesday night and became viral the next day.