Director Chayanika Chowdhury. COURTESY
Director Chayanika Chowdhury has been arrested by the police. She was arrested from the Panthapath area of the capital on Friday evening. After her arrest, she is being taken to the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective (DB) office. There, Pori Moni and she will be interrogated face to face on various issues. Police said there were several specific allegations against her.
Dhaka Metropolitan DB (North) Joint Commissioner Harun-ur-Rashid confirmed the arrest of Chayanika Chowdhury. "The cases of Pori Moni and Raj have been handed over to us. We can detain and interrogate anyone in the interest of investigating the case", he said.
Earlier on Wednesday evening, RAB arrested her after a four-hour raid on Poro Moni's house in Banani. During this time various drugs were seized from his house.
The next day, a case was filed against her under the Narcotics Control Act at Banani Police Station. In that case, she was produced in court and remanded for seven days. The court granted her a four-day remand after the hearing. The Pori Moni's case was later transferred to DB.
Meanwhile, RAB also arrested producer Nazrul Islam Raj on charges of supplying drugs and making pornography at his girlfriend's house. A case was also filed against him under the Narcotics Control Act. Another case was filed against him under the Pornography Act. Later, the court granted Raj a four-day remand in a drug case.
Note that Chayanika Chowdhury is a popular director in Bangladesh. She started directing on 17 September 2001 with the play 'Shesh Belay'.
She made her directorial debut with 'Biswasundari'.
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