Religious preacher Mutfi Kazi Ibrahim was detained by Detective Branch of police for interrogation on Monday night.
A team of Detective Branch of Police detained him at his Lalmatia residence on Monday night.
Detectives detained him for interrogation regarding his recent speech, Dhaka Metropolitan Police DB additional commissioner AKM Hafiz Akter said.
Before the raid, Ibrahim went live on Facebook and said some plainclothes men were knocking at his door to take him away.
Misinformation and fabricated stories regarding cure for Covid-19 across the globe are being spread through the speeches of Kazi Ibrahim on the internet.
Such speeches are spreading panic and confusion among the people in this grave situation,
Kazi Ibrahim, whose speeches went viral on social media platform, claimed that he had interviewed coronavirus in a dream and invented the formula to cure the disease.
He also claimed that his formula to combat the virus sparked huge reactions among scientists.
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