Model and Miss Bangladesh Foundation Chairperson Meghna Alam was shown arrested today in an extortion case filed with Dhanmondi Police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masum Mia passed the order after Investigation Officer of the case Md Akhtar Hossain, an inspector of the Detective Branch of Police, produced her before the court with an application in this regard. In the application, police said, "Meghna Alam, her close associate Dewan Samir, and two to three others were involved in luring foreign ambassadors into love affairs with beautiful girls.
" They conspired to extort Tk 50 lakh from each of the diplomats. The IO said in the application that Meghna needed to be shown arrested in the case for the sake of a fair investigation. Denying the allegations, Meghna told the court that she had been falsely implicated in the case.
She also claimed she did not know Dewan, and said that Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Bangladesh, Issa bin Youssef Al-Duhailan, had contacted her for building a relationship. She appealed to the court to reject the application filed for showing her arrested. Meanwhile, the same court placed Dewan on a five-day remand in the case after he was produced before it with a seven-day remand prayer.
On April 15, Mohammad Abdul Alim, an inspector of Dhanmondi Police Station, filed the case against Meghna, Dewan, and two others. According to the case statement, Meghna and Dewan, along with two to three unidentified individuals, are allegedly active members of.
