Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained the sister of controversial US expatriate presenter Kanak Sarwar on charges of anti-state activities on digital platform from Uttara area in the capital early Tuesday.

A team of RAB Headquarters Intelligence Unit and RAB-1 detained Nusrat Shahreen Raka, 38, wife of Nasir Uddin Majumder, from a house in Uttara area. A mobile phone set, a passport and some Ice, an illegal drug, were seized from her possession.

ASP ANM Imran Khan, Senior Assistant Director, Legal and Media Wing of Rab headquarters, confirmed the matter to Banglanews. 

He said that a vested quarter from abroad was spreading propaganda against the government and state on social media. While some local people were helping the vested quarter abroad.

Being informed, the elite force enhanced intelligence surveillance and came to know that sitting in Bangladesh, Raka has been working as a cohort of the quarter, he added.

During primary interrogation, RAB members came to know that Raka is an active member of the anti-state propaganda and conspiracy clique. To this end, she has been trying to disrupt the peace process in the country by spreading false, misleading and defamatory information about the state and important personalities of the state through social media.

Several members of the group are abroad and are involved in various anti-state propaganda through social media. She told RAB that they have carried out propaganda to tarnish the image of the country.

The interrogation further revealed that Kanak Sarwar, one of the anti-state conspirators and propagandists stationed abroad, was the brother of the arrestee.

She said that those arrested in such anti-state activities and their accomplices were providing various assistance to others including his brother who were stationed abroad.

Sources said the so-called ‘journalist’ and TV presenter Kanak Sarwar has been involved in anti-government activities for a long time while fleeing abroad. There are several cases against him in Dhaka. He was imprisoned in the country for several years.

He was released on bail and fled abroad. His current location is in the United States. Sitting abroad, he has been involved in slander against prominent political figures and law enforcement officials.

Kanak Sarwar has been under monthly payroll of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), according to competent sources. 

BDST: 2113 HRS, OCT 05, 2021
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