BUET student arrested under Cyber Security Act amid late-night protests

Police have arrested a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) amid overnight protests on campus. Sreeshant Roy, a student of BUET’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, was arrested on Wednesday in a case filed under the Cyber Security Act at Chawkbazar Police Station. BUET students began protests late on Tuesday night, accusing Sreeshant of sexually harassing a fellow student, hurting religious sentiments, and engaging in cyberbullying, and demanded his punishment. In the morning, a university security officer filed a case at Chawkbazar Police Station, and police subsequently showed Sreeshant as arrested in connection with that case. “A BUET security officer filed a case against him under the Cyber Security Act,” said Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner of...