Court ordered to interrogate actress Romana in jail gate

A court has ordered the interrogation in of model and actress Romana Islam Swarna (40) at the jail gate, who was arrested on charges of embezzling more than crores of taka from a Saudi expatriate through fraud.

Police produced him in the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on Friday. The police requested to remand him for five days for proper investigation of the case. On the other hand, her lawyer applied for bail seeking cancellation of remand. After hearing both sides, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Mahmuda Akhter denied her remand and bail application and directed a one-day interrogation at the jail gate.

Police arrested her on Thursday evening from the Lalmatia area of ​​the capital's Mohammadpur. Mrityunjay De Sajal, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Mohammadpur Zone of Tejgaon Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) confirmed the matter.

He said the victim, a Saudi expatriate, filed a case against Romana Swarna at the Mohammadpur police station on Thursday. The other accused in the case are Ashrafi Islam Sheili (60), Nahid Hasan Remi (38), Annafi (20), Farha Ahmed (30) and an unidentified youth (38).

In the case, the Saudi expatriate mentioned that Romana had swindled more than crores of taka from him by cheating on him on various pretexts. Mohammadpur police arrested Swarna on the basis of his allegations.

Mrityunjay de Sajal further said that the Saudi expatriate got acquainted with Romana Swarna through Facebook. After that, they used to communicate on WhatsApp Messenger at different times.