Police yesterday pressed charges against actress Pori Moni and her two aides Ashraful Islam Dipu and Kabir Hossain in a narcotics case.

Investigation Officer Kazi Golam Mostafa, also an inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department of police, submitted the charge sheet before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka, court sources said.

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According to the case statement, members of Rapid Action Battalion on August 4 detained Pori Moni and Dipu and seized alcohol and narcotics from her home.

The following day, the two were shown on paper arrested in the case filed with Banani Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act. Later, Kabir too was shown on paper arrested in the same case.

Pori Moni was later placed on seven days remand in three phases in the case.

On August 31, she got ad-interim bail from a Dhaka court.

Pori Moni was released from jail on bail on September 1, four weeks after her arrest.

On September 15, the High Court bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice KM Zahid Sarwar Kajol expressed discontent at the explanations of the two lower court judges, who had placed her on remand for the second and third time, saying that they had “undermined” this court.

The same bench on September 29 ordered the two lower court judges to give further explanations to it about their conducts over granting remand prayers. The bench also fixed October 24 for passing further order on this issue.

Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Satyabrata Sikder on September 28 ordered police to return 16 items, including a car, that were seized from Pori Moni’s home as evidence.

Pori Moni also made headlines in June after she went on Facebook live accusing businessman Nasir Uddin Mahmood and some others of trying to rape and kill her at a club in Dhaka.



Pori, 2 aides charged in narcotics case
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