On 30 March 2017, Mr. Hasibur Rahman Riju, a police informer, filed a complaint at Kushtia Model Police Station against Messrs. Hasan Ali and Aslam Ali. He accused them of publishing an offensive post under the Facebook name "Sultan Eslam' by using the cell phone of a worker at a tea stall at Thana Mor of Kushtia town. Mr. Hasibur Rahman Riju alleged that the post defamed him and violated Section 57(2) of ICT Act. On the same day, police Sub-Inspector Azizur Rahman arrested Messrs. Hasan Ali and Aslam Ali, along with Mr. Moudud Rana, a Kushtia District correspondent for the daily Manab Kantho, without any warrant. The three were briefly detained at the Kushtia Model Police Station. They were released on the same day after dozens of journalists went to the police station to investigate the arrests. Police Sub-Inspector Azizur Rahman subsequently recorded the complaint against Messrs. Hasan Ali and Aslam Ali as a case under Section 57 of the ICT Act with Kushtia Model Police Station, based on a statement taken from a boy who worked at a tea stall close to the police station. On 11 April 2017, Messrs. Hasan Ali and Aslam Ali were granted anticipatory bail for four weeks from a High Division Bench of the Supreme Court, composed of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Razik Al Jalil. On 9 May 2017, at the end of the four-week bail period, they appeared before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kushtia, which ordered their detention.