DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed the extortionist hacker Abdullah Al Fahad, who was nabbed under prevention of cyber crime law on Tuesday, on a two-day remand.

Magistrate Atiqur Rahman of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court passed the order after investigating officer (IO) of the case and also Bhatara Thana sub inspector (SI) Ashraful Alam produced Fahad before the court with a seven-day remand plea.

Lawyers Mobinul Islam, Priyalal Saha, Azad Rahman, Zahidur Rahman and Mustafa Kamal moved in the court for the remand order.

Advocate Belal Hossain was the defence lawyer.

Recently, Abdullah Fahad demanded Taka 1-lakh from Banglanews24.com news portal by hacking. The extortion money was demanded by email.

Searching the email Rab-4 caught Fahad at 11:00am on Tuesday.

Rab-4 officer Wares nabbed Fahad from Uttara of the capital. At initial interrogation Fahad has admitted his involvement in extortion.

Fahad was picked up by Rab-4 in connection with a case filed with Bhatara police station by banglanews authorities, told Wares.

The extortionist hacker has been found involved with various kinds of cyber offences including extortion and fraudulent activities.

In primary interrogation, he admitted of his involvement in extortion collection by hacking.

Another Rab official of intelligence department said that proofs were available about the cyber crimes committed by Abdullah Fahad at different times.

Fahad, 21, is a student of second year of computer science in IUBAT. His father is now working in defense services. He is living in Uttara, he said.

Before hacking Banglanews Fahad has tried to extort money from different organizations giving threats of hacking their web sites.

The case was instituted under ICT Act 56.

BDST: 1659 HRS, OCT 28, 2015
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** Police to seek remand for extortionist hacker