Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Sept-01,
Film actress Pori Moni was released from jail
on Wednesday, 27 days after her arrest in a drugs case.
Wearing a white dress
and a white scarf, Pori Moni walked out of Kashimpur Central Jail around 9.30
am, prison sources said.
She was received by her
legal counsel Nilanjana Rifat and relative Jashim Uddin at the jail gate, who
had been waiting for her since morning.
Immediately after
stepping out of the jail, the 29-year-old Dhallywood actor took a selfie
apparently to express her joy at being freed.
Hundreds of people had
gathered outside the jail gate to have a glimpse of the popular actress.
Advocate Nilanjana
said, “The bail order reached the jail last night, and that’s why she was freed
in the morning."
A Dhaka court on Tuesday
granted bail to Pori Moni in the drugs case filed under the Narcotics Control
Act.
Dhaka Metropolitan
Sessions Judge KM Emrul Kayesh had granted the relief to the actress on a bail
bond of Tk 20,000.
On August 22, Pori Moni
was sent to jail after inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
Kazi Golam Mostafa produced her in a court on the completion of a one-day
remand.
And on that day only,
judge Emrul Kayesh set September 13 for hearing her bail petition in the case.
However, the actress subsequently moved the High Court, challenging the
validity of the lower court's decision.
The High Court on
August 26 issued a rule, seeking explanation as to why a lower court order
fixing September 13 for hearing the bail petition of Pori Moni in a case under
the Narcotics Control Act should not be cancelled. It had also asked why the
bail application would not be heard within two days.
Pori Moni had been
remanded thrice for interrogation by police since RAB arrested her on August 4
from her Banani residence.
Later, a case was filed
against the popular Dhallywood actress for illegal possession of alcohol and
drugs in her house.
The Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) was tasked with investigating the charges
brought against her. They took over the case from the Detective Branch (DB).
Pori Moni and her
associate Nazrul Islam Raj were ringleaders of an organised gang, Commander
Khandaker Al Moin, director of Legal and Media Wing of RAB, told the media on
August 6.
Bangladesh Film Actors’
Association (Bangladesh Cholochitro Shilpi Samity) suspended the membership of
Pori Moni, two days after her arrest.
Expressing his
frustration over the decision, Shakib Khan wrote from his official Facebook
page: “I have noticed that after the arrest of Pori Moni only on the basis of
allegations, the Film Actors' Association has hastily held a press conference
and suspended her membership, without extending any hand of cooperation to her
at this crucial moment.”
“This behaviour of the
association is really very mysterious. Many conscientious senior-junior
artistes and cultural activists have regrets about the issue. This is an
inhumane treatment of the organization against her. The question remains, in
whose interest is the current Film Artists Association?” Shakib Khan wrote.
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