Model Meghna Alam released

Model Meghna Alam, winner of Miss Earth Bangladesh 2020, has been released from the jail.

She came out at around 6:30pm on Tuesday from Kashimpur Women Central Jail in Gazipur.

On Monday, a Dhaka court allowed bail to her in a case lodged with the city's Dhanmandi Police Station over fraud and extortion.

Earlier on April 17, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masum Miah showed her arrested in the case over fraud with a foreign diplomat by luring him into a honeytrap.

Meghna Alam was arrested from her Bashundhara Residential Area flat on April 9.

She was subsequently placed under a 30-day detention order, under the Special Powers Act.