A Bagerhat Court on Wednesday sent a lawyer in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for allegedly posting a defamatory status on Facebook about a college principal in Morelganj of Bagerhat.
The accused Golam Kibria Tariq, 45, was presented before the Bagerhat Judicial Magistrate's Court’s Judge Asadul Islam in the afternoon after primary interrogation.
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Nitish Biswas, principal of Morelganj Government Siraj Uddin Memorial College, alleged Tariq continuously posted defamatory status on Facebook about him, his family, college teachers and staff. He later filed a case at Morelganj Police Station.
Police arrested Tariq on Tuesday night, said Inspector SM Ashraful Alam, in-charge of Cyber Crime Investigation Cell in Bagerhat.
Tariq was a former member of the management committee of the college. And his father is the founder of that college.