Popular Dhallywood actor Shamsunnahar Smriti, popularly known by her stage name Pori Moni, received the date of September 13 for the next bail hearing in a drugs case against her. Her lawyer Mujibur Rahman said on Sunday (August 22) that he had filed a fresh bail plea at the court of Metropolitan Senior Special Judge KM Imrul Kayesh, who then fixed the new date for the hearing.
On Saturday (August 21), Pori was brought to the court after her third phase of remand in police custody was completed.
The same day, the investigative officer assigned on the case CID inspector Kazi Golam Mostafa argued to keep her in jail while her lawyers sought bail.
The court rejected the bail plea and sent her to jail on the same day.
On August 19, another Dhaka court had granted police one day to grill Pori Moni, after she spent six days in police custody in two earlier phases in the drugs case.
On August 4, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) had raided Pori Moni’s Banani home and detained her allegedly with bottles of liquor, yaba pills and LSD blots.
A minibar was found at Pori Moni’s residence where she regularly arranged parties, according to RAB.
RAB said the raid was conducted based on information gleaned from Sharful Hasan alias Mishu Hasan and his accomplice Md Masudul Islam alias Jishan, both of whom were arrested the previous day on charges of carrying out illicit activities through DJ parties.
In a nearly simultaneous raid, movie producer Nazrul Islam Raz and his manager Sabuj Ali were arrested as well.
RAB claimed that Raz ran a ring that used to host DJ parties in upscale Dhaka neighbourhoods and supply drugs, using the parties as a cover.
Bangladesh Police’s elite force RAB, who conducted these raids, also claimed to have seized BDSM and porn making equipment from Raz’s home during the same operation.
RAB brought drugs-related charges against Pori Moni and her aide Dipu in the case filed at Banani police station on August 6.
Pori Moni hit the headlines in a major way back in June after levelling rape and murder attempt charges against several people.
On June 14, she filed a case against businessman Nasir U Mahmood and five others, accusing them of attempting to rape and murder her at Dhaka Boat Club on the night of June 8.
Following the filing of the case, law enforcers arrested Nasir, who later claimed that Pori Moni and her companions were in a drunken state on the night in question.
