A Dhaka court showed model Meghna Alam arrested in a case filed with the city's Dhanmandi Police Station over fraud with a foreign diplomat by luring him into a honeytrap.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masum Miah passed the order today (April 17) as police produced Meghna before the court and the prosecution sought to have her formally shown as arrested in the case. Following the court's approval, she was sent back to jail.

Model Meghna Alam, winner of Miss Earth Bangladesh 2020, was arrested from her Basundhara Residential Area flat on April 9. She was subsequently placed under a 30-day detention order under the Special Powers Act.

The High Court, however, issued a rule on April 13, asking the relevant authorities to explain within two weeks why her 30-day detention under the Special Powers Act should not be declared beyond legal jurisdiction.

A High Court division bench of Justice Razik-Al-Jalil and Justice Tamanna Rahman Khalidi passed the order, following a hearing on a writ petition filed in this connection.