Bangladesh court sends 15-year-old Hindu boy to the Juvenile Detention Centre for hurting religious sentiments on social media

He was reportedly arrested under the Cyber Security Act in Dinajpur's Parbatipur region in Bangladesh.

The arrested teenager was identified as Arpon Das.

The arrestee is Arpon Das, 15, son of Sumon Das of Purba Rampur area under Parbatipur upazila, Abus Salam, officer-in-charge of Parbatipur Police Station, told The Daily Star.

Police arrested the teenager from home after Md Abdul Motin, a sub-inspector of Parbatipur Police Station filed the case against the boy under Cyber Security Act, 2023 with the police station yesterday, the newspaper reported.

The incident came to light at a time when Bangladesh was witnessing protests over the arrest of Hindu priest Chinmoy Krishna Das over sedition charges.

Meanwhile, ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has slammed the country's interim leader Muhammad Yunus in her first public address, accusing him of persecuting minorities.

In a virtual address at an event in New York on Sunday, she claimed that there were plans to assassinate her and her sister Sheikh Rehana just like their father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated in 1975.

This is her first public address after taking shelter in India following her resignation in August.

Referring to the attack on her official residence in Dhaka on August 5, Hasina said: "The armed protestors were directed towards Ganabhaban. If the security guards opened fire, many lives would have been lost. It was a matter of 25-30 minutes, and I was forced to leave. I told them [guards] not to fire no matter what happened."

"Today, I am being accused of genocide. In reality, Yunus has been involved in genocide in a meticulously designed manner. The masterminds -- the student coordinators and Yunus -- are behind this genocide," she said.

Hasina said the current government in Dhaka failed to protect the minorities.