A Dhaka court docket on Tuesday ordered a forensic take a look at of the passport, cellphones, MacBook, and laptop computer seized from mannequin Meghna Alam, the winner of Miss Earth Bangladesh 2020, in a case filed over alleged fraud and extortion.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Azharul Islam handed the order after the accused appeared earlier than the court docket and sought the return of her confiscated belongings. The gadgets embrace a passport, an iPhone 16 Pro, an Oppo telephone, a MacBook, and a laptop computer.
Following the listening to, the court docket directed the investigation officer to conduct the forensic examination and submit a report by August 31. It additionally requested the authorities involved to elucidate why the seized gadgets shouldn’t be returned to Meghna.
Meghna was arrested from her flat within the capital’s Bashundhara Residential Area on April 9, 2025, and subsequently positioned beneath a 30-day detention order beneath the Special Powers Act.
However, on April 13, the High Court issued a rule asking the authorities to elucidate inside two weeks why the detention order shouldn’t be declared unlawful.
On April 17, the court docket of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masum Miah confirmed Meghna arrested within the case filed with Dhanmondi Police Station over allegedly defrauding a overseas diplomat by way of romantic entrapment.
She was later granted bail by Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sanaullah on April 28 and launched from jail the next day.