Dhaka, Oct. 24 -- BCL's Rangpur Carmichael College Unit said in a statement on Saturday that they sacked him on Oct 18, a day after the attacks left at least 23 homes burnt at Majhipara village.

Sheikh Asif Hossain, general secretary of the organisation's Rangpur Metropolitan Unit, said they expelled Shaikat and another member of the college unit, Tanjirul Islam, after finding evidence that they instigated the attacks through Facebook posts.

Shaikat was the general secretary of the Philosophy Department Unit and Tanjirul was a vice-president of the college's central unit.

Shaikat uploaded the 'incendiary religious' posts on Facebook in a bid to increase his follower count, according to the Rapid Action Battalion.

The RAB also arrested...