Mou, Piasha placed on fresh remand

Dhaka courts on Friday placed models Marium Akter Mou and Faria Mahabub Piasha on fresh remand in separate cases.

Metropolitan Magistrate Satyabrata Sikder placed Mou on a fresh four-day remand in a case filed under the narcotics control act after the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police produced her before the court with a petition for 10 more days in remand.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury granted a total eight days of additional remand for Piasha in connection with three cases filed with Gulshan, Vatara and Khilkhet police stations. The investigating officers of the cases had sought a total 27 days of additional remand for interrogation.

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Defence counsels had opposed the remand petitions and sought bail for the accused, but their appeals were rejected by the court.

On August 1, the DMP Detective Branch arrested Mou and Piasha from different parts of Dhaka on charges of blackmailing people with objectionable photos. Later, narcotics cases were filed against the accused over drugs and liquor allegedly recovered from their residences.

On August 2, Metropolitan Magistrate Ashek Imam had granted three-day remand each for Mou and Piasha in the narcotics cases, filed with Mohammadpur and Gulshan police stations, respectively.

Mou, while being taken into police custody, claimed to journalists that there were no drugs at her house and that she was being framed.