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A court here today allowed bail to Meghna Alam, winner of Miss Earth Bangladesh 2020, in a case lodged with the city’s Dhanmandi Police Station over fraud and extortion.
Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sanaullah passed the order after
holding hearing on a plea for bail filed for the accused.
Earlier on April 17, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masum Miah
showed her arrested in the case over fraud with a foreign diplomat by luring
him into a honeytrap.
Meghna was arrested from her Bashundhara Residential Area flat on April 9.
She was subsequently placed under a 30-day detention order, under the Special
Powers Act.
The High Court, however, on April 13 issued a rule, asking the relevant
authorities to explain within two weeks why her 30-day detention under the
Special Powers Act should not be declared beyond legal jurisdiction.
A High Court division bench of Justice Razik-Al-Jalil and Justice Tamanna
Rahman Khalidi passed the order, following a hearing on a writ petition filed
in this connection.
