Bangladeshi Actress Pori Moni Who Alleged Rape & Murder by Dhaka Businessman, Arrested

DHAKA: India's neighbouring country Bangladesh's anti-crime and anti-terrorism force RAB detained the country's popular film actress Pori Moni after raiding her house here "on the basis of specific allegations".

The arrest comes days after two models were arrested on blackmail charges.

Notably, on June 14, the actress levelled allegations of attempted rape and murder on a Dhaka businessman.

She had sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's intervention to bring the "culprits" to justice.

On her allegations, the police arrested businessman Nasiruddin Mahmood, also a former footballer and student leader, along with two others. They were granted bail after being imprisoned for 18 days.

The raid came three days after the police arrested models Faria Mahbub Piasha and Mou Akter after raiding their Dhaka residences from where contraband drugs and liquor were seized.

"They (the two models) are members of a group that carry out organised blackmailing. People from well-off families used to visit their houses to be entrapped eventually," a police spokesman had said after their arrest.

Moni, 28, who has over lakhs of followers on social media, initially claimed that unknown people attacked her house and sought police protection even as a huge contingent of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) cordoned off the building in an upscale Dhaka neighbourhood.

"We have specific charges against her but we will explain our action later," RAB spokesman Major Roisul Azam Moni told journalists as she was detained from her house.

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