After seizing around five hundred mobile phones from students, the authorities of Hathazari madrasa burned them on Sunday night. The mobile phones were seized during a search operation by the Madrasa authorities in the student dormitories of the institution. Senior teacher of Hathazari Madrasa Mufti Jasim Uddin told Dhaka Tribune that students were asked not to use mobile phones containing videos of song and dance. “We have seized mobile phones from students which contain such videos. On November 25 last year, Islamic hardliner Hefazat-e-Islam chief Shah Ahmed Shafi has said Jews spread mobile phones to destroy Muslims.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 06, 2018 11:48 UTC