Police following up on a tip-off visited Shariful Islam’s home at Maizdi, 150 kilometres south of Dhaka, and found the doctored pictures of the PM on his computer, local police chief Chowdhury Abul Kalam said.

“We asked him to open his Facebook page. On the page, the face of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was pasted with that of a half-naked woman,” he said. Islam, an owner of an advertising firm, also “doctored the pictures of the home minister and some other ministers”, Kalam said, adding that the accused faced up to 10 years in jail if found guilty on defamation charges.