Bangladesh, Feb. 5 -- A staff member of Bangabhaban has been taken into custody in connection with the hacking of the verified X (formerly Twitter) account of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman.

The detainee has been identified as Mohammad Sarwar-e-Alam, an assistant programmer working at the President's Office. He was detained by the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) around midnight on Tuesday.

DMP Additional Police Commissioner (DB) Shafiqul Islam confirmed the matter, stating that Sarwar-e-Alam was brought to the DB office for interrogation. He added that further legal steps would be determined based on the outcome of the questioning.

Earlier, Jamaat-e-Islami had demanded that the authorit...