Model Meghna Alam gets bail

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. he was subsequently placed under a 30-day detention order, under the Special owers Act.

The High Court, however, on April 13 issued a rule, asking the relevant uthorities to explain within two weeks why her 30-day detention under the pecial Powers Act should not be declared beyond legal jurisdiction.

A High Court division bench of Justice Razik-Al-Jalil and Justice Tamanna ahman Khalidi passed the order, following a hearing on a writ petition filed n this connection.