Hyderabad, Oct. 6 -- A student was arrested for desecration of the Holy Quran in Bangladesh's Dhaka on October 4. The accused was identified as Apurba Paul.

According to reports, a video of Paul tearing the Quran and kicking it has gone viral. The incident occurred at the North South University in Dhaka. As fellow students confronted Paul, he reportedly said that the book was bought with his father's money, and it gave him the right to do with it as he wished.

Security guards intervened and chucked the student out of the campus before the police arrived and took him into custody. Paul desecrated the Quran after he was denied entry into class for arriving late and was asked to sit outside with the religious text.

According to The Daily ...