An official of Noakhali Science and Technology University was detained yesterday for making derogatory comment about ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Facebook.

Ziaur Rahman Samrat, 28, is the assistant director of the university.

Police said Samrat at 12:04am on Friday made a Facebook post making derogatory comment about Obaidul Quader, also road transport and bridges minister.

A day later, Md Nazrul Islam, general secretary of Kabirhat upazila unit Awami League and vice-chairman of the upazila parishad, filed a general diary (GD) with police in this connection.

However, Nazrul in his GD did not specify what actually Samrat wrote.

Following the GD, police detained Samrat from Shazadir Haat area in the upazila yesterday noon for interrogation, said Tomas Barua, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kabirhat Police Station.

The Daily Star correspondent talked to Samrat over phone on Friday night, hours after the GD was filed, when Samrat claimed that his Facebook ID had been hacked.

Contacted, the university's registrar Md Abul Hossain said Samrat would be suspended temporarily for his "misdeed".