Actress Nawshaba freed from jail

Staff Correspondent, Gazipur: Actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed has been freed from Gazipur’s Kashimpur jail after she had secured bail in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha.

The jail authorities released her on Tuesday afternoon. Her husband and elder brother came to receive her at the jail gate.

A Dhaka court earlier on August 10 put her on a two-day fresh remand in the case when Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, a Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit inspector and the investigation officer of the case, produced her before the court on expiry of her four-day remand and sought a 10-day fresh remand.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained the actress from Uttara area in the capital on August 4 over spreading ‘rumours’ on Facebook over the attack on protesting students.

In a Facebook live, Nawshaba claimed that the attackers killed two students and gouged out the eyes of another at Jigatala intersection.

In her post, she also requested people to get united, take to the streets to ‘protect’ the students as they were attacked by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists.


risingbd/Dhaka/August 21, 2018/Hasmot Ali/A K Azad