After so many turn of events on Saturday, pregnant Dhallywood actress Mahiya Mahi finally got released from jail around 7:30pm.
In brief, the Bangla movie star was arrested by police after landing at the airport, placed on court with remand plea, sent to jail by court rejecting the urge of remand, later granted bail and now released.
Gazipur District Jail Superintendent Anwarul Karim said the bail papers of Mahi reached the jail in the evening. Later, after verifying the papers, she was released around 7:30pm.
Later, Mahia Mahi left the prison area in a car around 7:50pm after crossing the crowd present at the prison gate.
Earlier, a Gazipur court granted bail to Mahi on Saturday (March 18) afternoon, three and a half hours after sending to jail by the same court from a different session.
After Arrival in Dhaka performing her Umrah Hajj, the Dhallywood actress was arrested in the morning by Gazipur police in two cases.
Among the cases, Rokon Mia, sub-inspector of Bason Police Station, lodged one under the Digital Security Act, 2018 alleging that the star tarnished the image of the police against Mahi and her husband.
Another case, filed by a businessman named Ismail Hossain against Mahia Mahi Sarkar and her husband Rakib Sarkar for forcibly occupying land worth crores of taka.
Confirming the matter, Mahi's lawyer Anwar Shadat said that Gazipur Metropolitan Magistrate Court-5 of Md Iqbal Hossain passed this order as she is a celebrity and considering her 6-month pregnancy.
The police presented Mahi earlier in the day to the Gazipur Metropolitan Magistrate Court and applied for a seven-day remand. Justice Md Iqbal Hossain ordered to send her to jail without granting the remand.
“Mahi's bail was not sought at that time when the court ordered to send her jail. Now we asked for her bail and the judge granted it. Hopefully, she will be released at night,” lawyer Anwar Shadat said.
He said that his client has come to the country despite the case because she respects the law.
Mahi was arrested from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday around 11:45 am.
Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) Commissioner Molla Nazrul Islam said that Mahi’s husband was supposed to arrive home on the same flight, but he remained in Saudi Arabia to escape.
Mahiya Mahi went to Saudi Arabia for Umrah with her husband. From there, she expressed her fear of being arrested after returning home on Facebook Live at around 12:30 am on Friday. Within 24 hours of this perception, the actress got arrested.
However, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said actress Mahi was arrested on the basis of specific allegations.
On Friday, Mahi revealed via Facebook Live that her husband owns a vehicle store in Bhawal, Gazipur called "Sony Raz Car Palace," which is located on the east side of Bhawal Badre Alam Govt. College that the shop was attacked by miscreants. They entered the showroom through the broken fence and damaged the furnishings, windows, doors, tables, and chairs along with robbing that, Mahi stated.
Mahi said that Mamun Sarkar and Ismail, alias Laden, had occupied the showroom. Mahi accused the Gazipur Metropolitan Police at the time of accepting a "bribe" on Facebook live.
Earlier, Mahiya Mahi appeared in news headlines while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ordered former state minister for information Murad Hassan to resign from his cabinet post after audio leaks went viral on social media where the 47-year-old physician Murad was heard using a stream of obscene words and threatening to drag Mahi into a five-star hotel and rape her.
