A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Enamul Haque Mony, a South Korean Kyungpook National University (KNU) PhD scholar, on a three-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.
The bench of Dhaka Judicial Magistrate Rajib Hasan passed the order after the hearing.
Investigation officer of the case, Mizanur Rahman, sub-inspector of Dhaka Railway police station (Kamalapur), produced him before the court seeking a 10 day remand.
Defense Counsel Md Kabiruzzaman, filed a bail petition with remand rejection, before the court for his client.
After the hearing the court rejected Enamul's bail petition and granted three days remand for interrogation.
Police filed a case against the accused with Dhaka Railway police station under Digital Security Act on Saturday.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Enamul, a central committee member of Islami Chhatra Shibir, for allegedly administering 22 fake online news portal sites and spreading anti-government propaganda. He was arrested around 7am on Saturday from the Airport Railway Station in Dhaka.
"He ran anti-government campaigns on the sites and earned money from these,” said RAB 2 Company Commander Mohiuddin Faruqi.
Enamul's familysaid they did not hear from him since he left for Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday night (November 21). He was supposed to fly to South Korea on Thursday at around 1am, on a Cathay Pacific flight.
Dakshin Khan police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Tapan Chandra Saha said, in the incident of Enamul's disappearance, a general diary (GD) was filed by the family at the police station on Thursday (November 22).
Enamul completed his higher education from Bangladesh Agriculture University of Mymensingh and was pursuing a PhD on a scholarship at the South Korean Kyungpook National University (KNU).
Since November 14, clones of several popular news websites in Bangladesh have appeared, disseminating outright false political news.
The Bangla Tribune, the Prothom Alo, and BBC Bangla have all been duplicated. Meanwhile the state news agency, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), appears to have been hacked.
