The hacker of Facebook account of Biplob Chandra Baidya in Bhola have been identified with the help of Facebook authorities in the US, said sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs. However, details about the hacker could not be known immediately. The Home Ministry official sources also said that drives to arrest the hacker of Biplob’s facebook account was on.
Sources said, immediately after the hacking of the Facebook account of Biplob, the hacker had spread fake conversations among locals of Borhanuddin upazila in Bhola. It should be mentioned that at least four persons were killed and many others sustained injuries on Sunday as fanatics clashed with police at Borhanuddin upazila in Bhola over the post spread through Facebook and its messenger app.
At one stage of the clash that broke out around 10:30am, law enforcers had to fire shots to disperse the mob, who since Friday had been demanding punishment of a Hindu youth they claimed was responsible for the hate conversation from his Facebook account, said police.
The zealots torched a house and vandalised 12 more belonging to the Hindu community in Borhanuddin municipality around noon.
Police on that day claimed that they arrested the hacker, Rafsan Islam Sharif, along with another man named Md Imon from Borhanuddin. They detained Sharif after he made a phone call to the Hindu youth, Biplob Chandra Baidya, from Patuakhali, and demanded Tk 2,000 for giving back Biplob’s Facebook account.
But later, the investigators said that they think that Sharif did not hack the FB account as he does not have the technical knowledge to do so. Police made Biplob the prime accused in a case filed under the Digital Security Act on Sunday night though he had lodged a general diary with police on Friday afternoon, saying his Facebook ID was hacked and hate conversations were spread through the hacked ID.
Earlier, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and Sarkar Mohammad Kaiser, Bhola Superintendent of Police, had informed that a request was sent to the Facebook authorities in the US to identify the perpetrators.
