Actress Shomi Kaiser was arrested from a residence at Uttara in the capital early Wednesday.
She was arrested around 12:30am during a drive, said Rounak Jahan, deputy commissioner of the Uttara Division Police, said.
The drive was conducted on a tip-off and the arrest was made at a house on Road 6 of Sector 4, Rounak also said.
Following a mass uprising, the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India on August 5.
On October 9, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Shomi Kaiser, folk singer and former lawmaker Momtaz Begum, former minister and actress Tarana Halim, and 13 others were sued for attempting to kill BNP activist -- Syed Hasan Mahmud -- in June 2022.
Mahmud filed the case against Hasina and others with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Belal Hossain.
Rounak Jahan said actress Shomi Kaiser is an FIR listed accused. She will be shown arrested in the case.
Shomi Kaiser, a former president of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh, is expected to be produced before the court later today (Wednesday).
Shomi Kaiser is the daughter of Shahidullah Kaiser, a renowned journalist and novelist who was abducted by the Pakistan Army and its collaborators in December 1971, during the final stages of the Liberation War, and was never seen again. Shomi's mother, Panna Kaiser, was a former Awami League lawmaker.
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