Provocative religious Facebook post: Narail college student arrested
Police have arrested the college student whose provocative Facebook post created a tense situation at Dighlia under Lohagara upazila in Narail district on Friday.
Akash Saha, 20, was arrested by Lohagara police from Khulna on Saturday night, superintendent of Narail police Prabir Kumar confirmed.
Akash Saha's Facebook profile shows that he is a student of Khulna Azam Khan Commerce College.
A post was sent from Akash Saha's Facebook ID hurling abusive language at Prophet Muhammad (SM). Seeing the post, inhabitants of village Kumri became agitated.
After Jumma prayers on Friday, a group of people went to the grocery shop of Ashok Saha. Being failed to find Akash Saha, they vandalised the shop. They also forced other shopkeepers to shut down their shops.
Later in the afternoon, a group of angry people launched attack on Akash's house in Sahapara. At one stage, they entered the Sahapara Temple and vandalized the furniture there. At that time, police fired several rounds of blank shots and lobbed teargas shells.
Most of the Hindu families of village Dighalia took shelter in the adjoining villages as the agitators attacked their houses and shops.
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