Rozina Islam, senior correspondent of Bengali newspaper the Daily Prothom Alo, was handed over to Shahbagh police by the Health Ministry reportedly after confining her for five hours inside the Secretariat.
"Rozina is currently inside the Shahbagh police station. She will be quizzed to know what happened at the Secretariat," said Sub-Inspector Abdullah, duty officer of Shahbagh police station.
He said that no complaint had been filed until filing of the report at 10:30pm.
Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry Maidul Islam informed the media that Rozina was handed over to Police for taking pictures of secret documents with her mobile phone. She also took some documents along with her from the room of Saiful Islam Bhuiyan who is the Personal Secretary (PS) to the Secretary of Health Services Division in his absence.
However, Rozina said that she had gone to meet the Health Services Division secretary. At that time, PS Saiful misbehaved with her. She claimed that she had not taken any files from the room.
At one moment of her confinement, Rozina got unconscious.
Sajjad Sharif, managing editor of the Daily Prothom Alo, told this correspondent that they would issue an official statement soon.
National Press Club President Farida Yasmin has condemned the alleged harassment of Rozina Islam. She demanded proper investigation into the incident.
