RAB nab student for running unauthorised news portals

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained Enamul Haque Moni, a PhD student, from the city's Airport Railway Station on Saturday on charges of hosting a number of online news portals illegally, reports UNB.

Moni was held from the railway station around 7:15 am on charges of operating around 20 Bangladeshi online news portals illegally from South Korea, said Superintendent of Police (SP) Moinuddin Faruque of RAB-2.

"We've found his involvement in the illegal acts during an investigation carried out based on an allegation filed by Bangla daily Prothom Alo. The daily alleged that a vested quarter is involved in duplicating its online contents illegally," he said.

"Besides", during the investigation, "We also found evidence that Moni is a central leader of Bangladesh Chhatra Shibir and used to deposit the earnings from running the illegal news portals to the party's central fund," SP Faruque added.

Family members, however, earlier had claimed Moni went missing when he was going to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to catch a flight for South Korea, where he is pursuing his PhD degree, on Thursday night.