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Govt seeks data from Facebook to identify Bhola culprits
DHAKA, Oct 21, 2019 (BSS) – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today
said investigations were underway to expose to punitive actions against the
culprits who unleashed violence in Bhola using the Facebook and expected to
identify them in next three days obtaining data from the authorities of the
social media.
“We’ll get information from Facebook authority within next two or three
days and the information will help identify the culprits behind the incident
in Bhola,” he told journalists at his ministry office.
The minister urged the countrymen to have patience and wait for two or
three days, as the law enforcement agencies had already filed case and
arrested Facebook user and the alleged hacker to this end.
“We’ll take stern action against those who will be found guilty after
investigation into the matter,” he said.
Kamal added: “Police arrested two people with alleged links to the
hacking and Facebook account user.”
The minister said that soon after the incident, he contacted
Superintendent of Police (SP) in Bhola and talked about the situation.
The local SP said that a rally was staged in this regard and later two
or three hundred people swooped on police after the rally.
Kamal said a section of people are out to create unstable situation in
the country by spreading propaganda.
Earlier on Sunday, violence erupted in Bhola killing four people and
wounding around hundred others centering a screenshot from a Facebook account
user Biplob Chandra Shuvo (actual name is Biplop Chandra Baidya).
Biplob Chandra Baidya claimed that his account was used by a hacker to
spread profanity-laced comments, according to Superintendent of Police of
Bhola Sarker Mohammad Kaiser.
BSS/SAS/SH/ 1822 hrs