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Published : 04 Jan 2026, 09:00 PM
Police have detained five people in connection with an incident in which a woman was tied up and tortured by having water poured on her, after a video of it spread on the Internet.
They were detained from the Markazut Talim Al-Islami Madrasa in Dhaka’s Nadda on Saturday midnight, said Gulshan Police chief Md Rakibul Hasan.
However, the detainees were produced in court on Sunday as the victim could not be located.
Later, the court sent them to jail for seven days, police said.
In the video that went viral on Facebook on Saturday, a woman dressed in winter clothes was seen tied up to an electric pole, and two people were pouring water on her from small buckets and mugs.
Among the crowd, one was filming it on his mobile phone, while another was laughing.
Amid backlash on social media, police identified the location of the video on Saturday night and detained five people.
They said the incident happened on Friday morning.
Quoting the detainees, officer Rakibul said two students of the madrasa saw the woman stealing around 7am on Friday.
Later, they caught the woman “red-handed” and punished her without reporting it to police.
He said, “We checked the CCTV footage and found that the woman entered the madrasa early in the morning. We think she is a vagrant.
“Upon being caught, she made incoherent remarks, such as she had gone to get her son admitted.”
No one in the area recognised the woman, and police could not find her despite searching the surrounding areas.
