Another quota reform leader booked, 2 held for student protest rumours

Humayun Kabir and Sayeed Muhammad: A student of Eden College, also a leader of the quota reform movement, was arrested from her grandfather’s house in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj yesterday early hours.
The cyber crime unit of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit and members of Belkuchi Police arrested Lutfur Nahar Luma around 4:30am from Khidrachapri area, reported The Daily Star.
Mohammad Abdur Rajjak, officer-in-charge of Belkuchi Police Station, said Luma, who is a second-year student of Social Science at Eden College, hails from Kashiani upazila and was hiding at her grandfather’s house.
She was arrested in a case filed under ICT Act filed with the Ramna Police Station, he added.
She has been brought to Dhaka for interrogation, the police official said, adding, further details of the case cannot be revealed at the moment for the sake of investigation.
Luma has been picked up a day after Tasnim, a master’s student of sociology department of Dhaka University, was detained from Shamsunnahar Hall area over “provocative” Facebook posts.
However, Tasnim, also an activist of the quota reform movement, was released four hours into detention.
Meanwhile, the organised crime (cybercrime unit) of Criminal Investigation Department has booked two students for allegedly spreading rumours on social media during the student protests seeking road safety.
The duo — Ahmed Hossain, 19 and Nazmus Sakib, 24, — were held from separate areas in Dhaka on Tuesday night, says a press release issued by the CID.
Nazmus Sakib is a student of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, while Hossain is a Kamranguchar Jamia Nuria Madrasa student, CID Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (Legal and Media Cell) Sharmin Jahan said.
They were held for “spreading rumours on social media instigating violence and unrest” in the country, the press note added.
The case was filed under the Sections 57(2) and 66 of the ICT Act with Paltan Police Station, said Sharmin.
So far, 24 university and college students for spreading rumours through the social media during the student demonstration that begun following the July 29 deaths of two students in a road crash in Dhaka.
Police recently claimed gathering details about a hundred social media accounts which incited violence centring on the student movement by spreading provocative contents and going live on Facebook.