A Dhaka court on Wednesday put Nushrat Shahreen Raka, sister of US expatriate journalist Kanak Sarwar, on a five-day remand in two cases-one filed under the Narcotics Control Act and another under the Digital Security Act (DSA).
Additional metropolitan magistrate Abu Bakar Siddique put her on a 3-day remand in the DSA case while Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Nivana Khayer placed her on a 2-day remand in the Narcotics case when police produced her before their courts with a 7-day remand prayer in each case.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested Nushrat Shahreen Raka early Tuesday from her resident in the city’s Uttara area in accusation of spreading anti-state propaganda through online platforms.
On October 1, Raka in her GD with the police station said a fake Facebook account had been opened in her name and various anti-government posts had been published since then.
She was arrested before taking any legal steps regarding her GD.
