2 detained for ‘spreading rumours’ on YouTube

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive detained two people including admin Md Khalid Bin Ahmed of online channel SKTV from city's Uttara area early Saturday over alleged spreading of anti-state rumours on YouTube.

The other detainee is Ahmed’s associate Hizbullah.

A team of RAB-1 conducted drive in the area early in the morning and rounded up them in connection with 'spreading rumours', said senior assistant superintendent of police Mizanur Rahman, deputy director of RAB headquarters.