DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Saturday sent the extortionist hacker Abdullah Al Fahad, who was nabbed under prevention of cyber crime law on October 27, to jail after completion of a two-day remand.
Judge Yunus Khan of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court of Dhaka passed the order after the investigating officer (IO) of the case and also Bhatara Thana sub inspector (SI) Ashraful Alam produced him before the court.
The court also fixed Sunday as the date of hearing denying the bail plea filed by defence lawyer Advocate Belal Hossain.
Earlier on October 28, Judge Atiqur Rahman of CMM court of Dhaka placed the accused Fahad on a two-day remand.
Recently, Fahad demanded Taka 1-lakh from Banglanews24.com news portal by hacking. The extortion money was demanded by an email.
Searching the email Rab-4 caught him at 11:00am on October 27.
Rab-4 officer Wares nabbed Fahad from Uttara of the capital. At initial interrogation Fahad had 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.
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: 2136 HRS, OCT 31, 2015
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