Bangabhaban employee gets bail

FE Team | Published: February 05, 2026 23:04:46

A Dhaka court on Thursday granted bail to Sarwar Alam, assistant programmer of the ICT section of Bangabhaban, in a case filed over the hacking of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman's verified X account, reports BSS.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Awlad Hossain Mohammad Zunayed passed the order on a Tk 5,000 bond after police produced the accused in court and sought his remand until the completion of the investigation.
According to the case documents, Dr Shafiqur Rahman's X account was hacked at 4:55 pm on Monday (January 31). Md. Sirazul Islam, member of the Jamaat's 2026 National Election Steering Committee and coordinator of the Campaign Division, filed the case with Hatirjheel Police Station on February 4.