A court has sent singer Asif Akbar to jail in a case filed by lyricist, composer and singer Shafiq Tuhin under the Information and Communication Technology or ICT Act.
The court of Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Keshob Kumar Roy passed the order rejecting both remand and bail petitions on Wednesday.
Earlier, investigation officer of the case and sub-inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Proloy Roy filed a petition seeking a five-day remand for him.
Asif's lawyers also filed a petition seeking bail for him.
Earlier, special superintendent of police under the Criminal Investigation Department Molla Nazrul Islam said Asif was detained from his studio in Dhaka’s BFDC area around 1:30am on Wednesday.
Apart from Akbar, four unidentified people have also been accused in the case filed with the Tejgaon Police Station on Monday.
Asif is accused of digitally pirating and selling at least 617 songs of various artists as mobile phone contents without their permission.
More than 100 songs were written by Tuhin, according to the case document.
Tuhin said he first noticed the alleged piracy through a television programme on June 1.
Later he contacted various TV channels and found that Asif had earned a large amount of money by selling those songs through numerous production houses, including his ARB Entertainment.
Tuhin took to Facebook with comments on the issue that prompted Asif to respond.
Asif has also been accused of making abusive, offensive and false comments live on Facebook.
