A Dhaka court on Friday sent Tithi Sarker, a Jagannath University student, to jail after one-day remand in a case filed over charges of hurting religious sentiment.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahidul Islam passed the order after Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police, produced Tithi Sarker in court after the remand period.
Earlier on November 11, CID of police arrested Tithi Sarker and her husband on charges of hurting religious sentiment.
She was nabbed from a house in Madhabdi Upazila of Narsingdi and her husband Shiplu Mallik from Gulistan in the capital on Wednesday.
Tithi Sarker, a student of geology at Jagannath University had her studentship suspended on October 26.
Earlier on October 27, Smriti Rani Sarkar, elder sister of Tithi Sarker, lodged a general diary with Pallabi Police Station stating that her younger sister went missing after she left their residence on the morning of October 25.
Though, on November 12, CID officials said Tithi Sarkar faked her own abduction to divert attention from the allegations that she had hurt religious sentiment.
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