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POST TIME: 2 August, 2017 00:00 00 AM
Facebook post over death of goat
Khulna journo arrested under Sec 57
UNB

Khulna journo 
arrested under Sec 57

Police arrested a local journalist from his residence in Dumuria upazila of Khulna yesterday in a case filed under section 57 of the ICT Act over a Facebook post allegedly 'demeaning State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda', reports UNB. A local man, Subrata Mazumder, filed the case with Dumuria Police Station against Latif Morol, 40, Dumuria correspondent of 'Dainik Probaha', said Sukumar Biswas, officer-in-charge of Dumuria Police Station. According to the case statement, Morol in his Facebook post allegedly criticised the junior minister as some goats distributed by him (minister) among poor people in Dumuria died soon after the distribution.