Narcotics Control Act
Pori Moni put on 2-day fresh remand
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed actress Pori Moni on a 2-day fresh remand in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debabrata Das passed the order when police produced her before the court upon completion of her four-day remand.
Read:Pori Moni likely to be produced before CMM court today
Pori Moni’s counsel filed a petition before the court seeking bail for her.
Besides, the court also put Ashraful Islam Dipu, an associate of Raj Multimedia owner Nazrul Islam Raj, on a two-day remand in the same case.
Pori Moni likely to be produced before CMM court today
Actress Shamsunnahar Smrity alias Pori Moni might be produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM), Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon, upon completion of her 4-day remand in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
Pori Moni is scheduled to be taken to the court at 12:00 pm and be produced before it at 3 pm, sources within law enforcement agencies and the CMM court told UNB.
Read: Probe committee to investigate Saklain-Pori 'affair'
She might be produced before the court in the afternoon, said Deputy Commissioner (Prosecution) Zafar Hossain.
Film actress Pori Moni, whose allegation of rape attempt on her by businessman Nasir U Mahmud and others prompted firestorm in social media barely two months back, was detained from her home on August 4.
Read:Pori Moni ‘affair’: Now police officer Sakline faces the music
A case was then filed against the actress under the Narcotics Control Act the following day.
Later, a Dhaka Court placed her on a 4-day remand in the case.
Read: Pori Moni placed on 4-day remand
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police has been tasked with investigating the charges brought against her.
They took over the case from the Detective Branch (DB) of the police and were carrying out the investigation.
Pori Moni ‘affair’: Now police officer Sakline faces the music
Gulam Sakline Sithil, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Detective Branch under DMP, has been transferred to the West Division of Public Order Management (POM) for his alleged relationship with arrested film actress Pori Moni.
Gulam Sakline, ADC (DB-Gulshan), was introduced with Pori Moni in June this year when he was a supervising officer of a case filed with Airport Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act against businessman Nasir Uddin Mahmood.
Nasir Uddin was arrested by DB police on June 15 from Uttara over a case filed with Savar Police Station by actress Pori Moni for alleged attempt to rape and murder her.
According to media reports, Sakline had been maintaining a relationship with Pori Moni secretly.
But the matter came to light when members of elite force Rab detained Pori Moni from her Banani flat on Wednesday night.
Pori Moni placed on 4-day remand
A Dhaka court on Thursday night placed actress Shamsunnahar Smrity alias Pori Moni on a 4-day remand in a case under the Narcotics Control Act.Besides Raj Multimedia owner Nazrul Islam Raj and his two associates Ashraful Islam Dipu and Shobuj have also been placed on 4-day remand each on two different cases filed against them under the Narcotics Act.The court of Dhaka Metropolitan magistrate Mamunur Rashid passed the order after the investigation officer of Banani police station Sohel Rana produced them before the court and sought a 7-day remand for each of them.
Also read: Pori, Raj ringleaders of organised gang: RabFilm actress Pori Moni and her associate Nazrul Islam Raj were ringleaders of an organised gang , said Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of Legal and Media Wing of Rab, on Thursday.
Pori, Raj ringleaders of organised gang: Rab
Film actress Pori Moni and her associate Nazrul Islam Raj were the ringleaders of an organised crime gang, said Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of Legal and Media Wing of Rab, on Thursday.
He came up with the remarks while briefing reporters about Pori Moni’s arrest at its headquarters in the afternoon.
They carried out their activities in different posh areas of the capital, including Gulshan, Baridhara and Banani, targeting people from the affluent section of society and had been selling drugs in the name of holding parties or DJ parties.
“Pori Moni had a minibar at her home and it was often used as a venue for such parties,” said Rab Commander Moin.
A case was filed against Dhallywood actress Pori Moni under the Narcotics Control Act on Thursday following her detention on Wednesday.
Two more cases -- one under the Narcotics Control Act and another under the Pornography Control Act—were filed against her associate Nazrul Islam Raj, owner of Raj Multimedia.
Read: Dhallywood actress Pori Moni detained from Banani residence
The elite force filed these cases with Banani Police Station, said the Rab official.
On Tuesday night, Rab arrested Sharful Hasan alias Mishu Hasan ,31, and his accomplice Md Masudul Islam alias Jishan, 39, along with firearms and huge stash of contraband items from Bashundhara Residential Area, he said.
Pori Moni case: Omi's associates get bail
Two associates of Tuhin Siddiqui Omi, one of the accused in a case over rape and murder attempt on actor Pori Moni, have been granted bail in a case filed against them under the Passport Act.
The court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dhiman Kumar Mondal delivered the verdict granting bail to Bashir Miah and Mashiur Rahman Palash on Saturday.
A joint team of Dakkhinkhan and Savar police raided a recruiting agency belonging to Tuhin Siddiqui Omi in Dhaka's Dakkhinkhan area on the night of June 15 and recovered 102 passports from there.
Also read: Pori Moni buoyed by police work, calls it 'magic'
Two staffers, Bashir and Palash, were also arrested during the raid.
Later, Kamal Hossain, inspector (investigation) of Savar Police Station filed a case against Omi and the two arrestees with Dakkhinkhan Police Station under the Passport Act.
Besides, the court also ordered to send three young women arrested alongside Nasir U Mahmud and Tuhin Siddiqui Omi to jail after they were produced before it after completion of their remand.
Also read: Pori Moni case: Police press drug-related charges against Nasir, four others
A Dhaka court on 15 June placed Nasir U Mahmud and Tuhin Siddiqui Omi on a seven-day remand each in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
Three women, also accused in the case, have been remanded for three days.
BNP smells a rat in Pori Moni incident
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that actress Pori Moni’s issue was brought to the limelight to divert people’s attention to a different direction from Khaleda Zia’s illness and the government’s failure to tackle the Covid situation.
Speaking at a roundtable discussion, he also questioned the seven-day remand of businessman Nasir U Mahmud in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
Read: Pori Moni buoyed by police work, calls it 'magic'
“The main job of the current government is to deceive people and mislead them. Our journalist brothers are now very active over the Pori Moni issue. Who is Pori Moni? Can’t we understand it’s again a matter of diversion and misleading people?” the BNP leader said.
He said, “When there’re talks over Khaleda Zia’s illness and her release, the country’s democratic situation and the Health Ministry’s extreme failure, and when the Covid cases keep surging, this issue has been brought to the forefront.”
Fakhrul said it is only possible for Awami League to deceive people and play games with them. “They’re suppressing the entire nation resorting to this tactic.”
BNP’s national committee on celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the country’s independence arranged the programme at the Jatiya Press Club, marking the shutdown of all newspapers except four state-run ones on 16 June 1975.
On Monday, Nasiruddin Mahmud, former president of Uttara Club Limited, and four others were arrested from a Uttara flat in the capital following a case filed over his reported attempt to rape and kill actress Pori Moni.
Read: Another case filed against Tuhin Siddiqui Omi
Pori Moni, in her verified Facebook page, sought justice from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "I’ve been physically assaulted and they even attempted to rape and kill me. I want justice," she stated in her post.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court placed Nasir and another co-accused Tuhin Siddique Omi on seven-day remand each in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
Fakhrul said people have no security in the country as law enforcers are suddenly picking up people in different cases, including false ones.
“I don’t know how much of this incident (Pori Moni’s) is true and false. But seeing yesterday’s incident, I’ve got an impression that everything is now possible in this country. The case was filed for attempting to rape and kill. But he (Nasir) was remanded in a narcotics case,” he said.
Read: Pori Moni case: Police press drug-related charges against Nasir, four others
Fakhrul also said he could not understand the reason behind placing businessman Nasir on the remand in the narcotic case when he does not own the house from where the liquor and drugs were recovered.
“Many questions have now arisen. Whether the powerful people and ruling party can do whatever they want. Whether the administration can pick up any one as per their whims and can defame and ruin his/her social dignity and family reputation in this way,” he questioned.
Nasir, Omi placed on 7-day remand in narcotics case
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed Nasir U Mahmud and Tuhin Siddiqui Omi on a seven-day remand each in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
Three women, also accused in the case, have been remanded for three days.
Also read: Pori Moni case: Police press drug-related charges against Nasir, four others
The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Nivana Khair Jessi passed the order after Udoy Kumar Mondal, an inspector of the Detective Branch of police and the case investigation officer, produced them before the court.
Earlier in the day, the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Kamrun Naher fixed July 8 for police to submit their probe report in the case filed by actress Pori Moni accusing Nasir,Omi and four others of trying to rape and kill her.
Also read: Uttara Club's ex-president Nasiruddin,4 others arrested over rape attempt on Pori Moni
DB police are investigating the case was filed at Savar police station on Monday.
Pori Moni case: Police press drug-related charges against Nasir, four others
Police on Tuesday pressed drug-possession charges against realtor Nasir U Mahmood and four others, a day after they were arrested over their alleged attempt to rape and murder actress Pori Moni.
An FIR was filed against the five under the Narcotics Control Act at the Airport police station in the small hours of Tuesday on a complaint by Manik Kumar, sub-inspector of DB Gulshan zonal team, said duty officer Mashiul Alam.
Drug-related charges have been brought against the five in the wake of the seizure of some 1,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from their possession at the time of their arrest.
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The other accused in the case are Tuhin Siddique Omi, 33, Nazma Amin Brishti, 24, Lipi Akter, 18, and Sumi Akter, 19.
All of them will be produced in a court later in the day and police will seek their remand for custodial interrogation, sources told UNB.
On Monday, police arrested Nasir, the former president of Uttara Club Limited, from a flat in the Uttara area in the wake of a case filed over the alleged attempt to rape and kill actress Pori Moni. The case was filed on a complaint by the actress.
Read: Rape attempt on Pori Moni: Boat Club expels Nasir from EC
Apart from the drugs, police also seized foreign liquor and beer from the apartment.
Nasir’s Facebook profile shows he is currently the chairman of Kunj Developers, former president of Uttara Club, former district chairman of Lions Clubs International, a former footballer, and former elected general secretary of SM Hall of Dhaka University.
Besides, Dhaka Boat Club expelled Nasir from its executive committee on Monday, hours after his arrest.
Read: Uttara Club's ex-president Nasiruddin,4 others arrested over rape attempt on Pori Moni
The club took the unanimous decision at an EC meeting presided over by its President Dr Benazir Ahmed. It was attended by eight other EC committee members as well as club’s adviser Rubel Aziz.
The meeting also suspended the club membership of Nasir and three others, Tuhin Siddique Omi and Shah S Alam, said a statement from the club.
Irfan Selim relieved from narcotics case
Irfan Selim, son of Awami League leader Haji Selim and former ward councillor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), was relieved on Monday from a case filed with Chwakbazar Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.