Actress Mahiya Mahi has been granted bail on Saturday afternoon in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA).

Judge Ikbal Hossain of Metropolitan Magistrate Court-5 granted the bail considering Mahi’s pregnancy and celebrity image, said Mahi’s counsel Anwar Sahadat.   

Gazipur Metropolitan Magistrate Iqbal Hossain passed the order when police produced her before the court seeking a seven-day remand prayer in the case. The court also rejected the remand petition.

Mahi was arrested from the airport after her arrival from Saudi Arabia but husband Rakib Sarker, also an accused in the case, did not return home with her.

Briefing reporters, Gazipur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Molla Nazrul Islam said, “A case was filed against Mahi and her husband under the DSA Act on Friday night for ‘tarnishing the image of Police Commissioner and Police Department’. Police arrested her from Dhaka airport soon after she arrived at the airport from Saudi Arabia this noon.”

Mohammad Ibrahim, deputy commissioner of DB of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, said a team of Gazipur police arrested Mahi and took her to Bason Police Station.

Rokon Mia, sub-inspector of Bason Police Station, filed a case under Digital Security Act against Mahi and her husband Rakib on Friday night on charge of “defaming police” after going live on Facebook.

Meanwhile, Ismail Hossain, a businessman, filed another case with Bason Police Station against 28 people including the couple on charges of assault, vandalism and land grabbing.

Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul