Actress Shamsunnahar Smriti, better known by her screen name Pori Moni, has been brought to court by police at the end of the third spell of questioning in custody in a drug-related case.
After arriving in the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on Saturday, investigating officer of the case, CID Inspector Kazi Golam Mostafa, the case's investigating officer, requested that she be sent to jail instead of seeking another remand order.
However, Pori Moni's lawyer Md Mojibur Rahman said they would not petition for bail, reports bdnews24.com.
But her legal team is appealing to the court to hold a hearing in her presence. A hearing is scheduled to take place in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ashek Imam later in the afternoon, according to SI Md Alamgir.
The Rapid Action Batallion conducted a raid on Pori Moni's home in Banani on Aug 4. The elite police unit later detained her allegedly with bottles of liquor, Yaba pills and LSD blots.
The actress has already been remanded twice in the case by the CID. She had been denied bail at the end of her second remand term and was ordered to jail by the court.
Pori Moni's lawyer Mojibur had again applied for bail on Aug 16 but the court rejected the petition on Aug 18.
The investigating subsequently sought a fresh 5-day remand for the actress but a bail hearing did not take place that day.
Lawyer Mojibur said a fresh bail application would be filed at the same time if a remand hearing was decided on Thursday (August 19) in the presence of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debabrata Biswas.
Later on Thursday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqul Islam granted investigators one more day to question the actress in custody.