Police arrested actress and former president of Bangladesh E-Commerce Association Shomi Kaiser in a case filed with the Uttara Police Station.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Rownok Jahan told The Business Standard that the woman was arrested in the capital Uttara.

On October 9, BNP activist Syed Hasan Mahmud filed a case against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Shomi Kaiser, folk singer and former MP Momtaz Begum, former minister Tarana Halim and 13 others, accusing them of attempting to kill him in June 2022.

Mahmud filed the case in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Belal Hossain.

Rownok Jahan said that the case will show that Shomi Kaiser was arrested.