The Detective Report from Facebook and Then…

Opinion

Based on a typed ‘detective report’ found on a white sheet of paper on Facebook, Meher Afroze Shaon and Sohana Saba were taken in for questioning. After August, the detectives found no evidence of Shaon traveling abroad. As for Sohana Saba, attempts were made to provide concrete evidence using her photos to prove that she was outside the country.

So, let’s find out what the detectives discovered.
The detective report claimed that a meeting took place on the 15th. However, what the DB Police found upon checking was that, according to Dhaka’s immigration records, Sohana Saba left the country on the 16th to attend the Jaipur Film Festival. Airline records confirmed that she took a connecting flight to Jaipur via Kolkata and had a layover of only 3 hours. Credit card records showed that she used the lounge at Kolkata Airport during those 3 hours.
Further airline records proved that on her return, she took a flight from Jaipur to Dhaka via Delhi. Therefore, no evidence was found of her entering Kolkata city.

As a result, the DB Police found themselves in a predicament with this ‘detective report.’ What kind of detective reports that someone attended a meeting “in person and online”? A real detective would specify, “These individuals attended in person, and these individuals attended online.”
But this detective reported in such a vague manner, it’s like the story of Gopal: “If there are 26,000 crows in the city, and you count more, it means some crows from another city have come to visit. If you count fewer, some crows have gone to visit another city.”

Anyway, the entire country now runs on instructions from Facebook and YouTube. Where the army will guard and where they will withdraw from is also decided by Walker Sahib based on Facebook and YouTube. In comparison, the DB Police has shown professionalism. Arresting someone and charging them in a few petty theft cases—what else could they have done?

-Arif Jebtik
Writer, Journalist, Blogger, and Online Activist