Police arrested two people for their alleged involvement in torturing a 13-year-old boy over theft charge from Rajnagar Bandhupara village in Nalitabari upazila on Tuesday.

The arrestees are Ishak Mia, 30 and Rabiul Mia, 20-two sons of Abdus Salam of the village.

Bashir Ahmed Badal, officer-in-charge of Nalitabari Police Station, said the arrestees picked up the teenage body and beat him up mercilessly after tying him up with a coconut tree for stealing a mobile phone on Sunday.

Later, the boy was taken to Upazila Health Complex.

The incident of torture went viral on the social networking site. A case was filed in this connection.

Kazi Ashraful Azim, superintendent of police, visited the spot the following day.

Judicial Magistrate Mohsina Hossain put them on a 7-day remand each after police produced them before the court on Wednesday.