Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) Commissioner Molla Nazrul Islam said that Mahia Mahi has made false allegations on Facebook Live about the police department, GMP over land related issues.
She also commented about her opponent group. She has no right to make comments about a department, said the GMP commissioner.
He came up with the comments at a press briefing from his office on Saturday 1pm after Dhallywood actor Mahi's arrest.
Nazrul Islam said: "The police have filed a case against Mahi under the Digital Security Act. Mahi was arrested from Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 11:45am.”
Mahi also has been sued in another case filed by her rival group.
He said that nine other accused people were arrested and sent to court in the case filed by Mahi's rival group.
They are Sajjad Hossain Sohag, Ashiqur Rahman, Fahim Hossain Hriday, Jewel Rahman, Jamsher Ali, Mostaq Ahmed, Khalid Saifullah Julhas, Sujan Mondal and Mahbub Hasan Sabbir.
The commissioner said: "Mahi's husband Rakib Sarkar is also accused in three cases of arms, murder and rape. No one testified in those cases. But the facts were true. But now there is an opportunity to re-investigate the cases and to testify as witnesses.”
Apart from this, various complaints are constantly coming to GMP police against Rakib.
One of Rakib's brothers is involved in extortion in the transport sector and illegal land occupation of Gazipur. Following the demands of the people of Gazipur, the police have stopped unauthorized and illegal traffic from various highways, added the police official.
Meanwhile, a Gazipur court on Saturday ordered Sharmin Akter Nipa, popularly known as Mahiya Mahi, to be sent to jail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for allegedly tarnishing the image of the Gazipur Metropolitan Police.
The court of Gazipur Metropolitan Magistrate Md Iqbal Hossain passed the order following the Dhallywood actor's arrest on Saturday.
The police had not made a remand plea, GMP Assistant Police Commissioner Md Ahsanul Huq told Dhaka Tribune.
The GMP arrested her at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 11:45am on Saturday, Deputy Police Commissioner Abu Torab Md Shamsur Rahman said.
The actor had been in Saudia Arabia with her husband, Rakib Sarker, to perform Umrah, the police officer added.
Rakib, who is the joint general secretary of the Awami League's Bason unit in Gazipur, did not return home with Mahi.
A GMP team had been positioned at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport since dawn as the unit had learnt that the actor was returning home from Saudia Arabia, GMP Detective Branch Deputy Commissioner Ibrahim Hossain said.
Earlier, two separate cases were filed against Mahiya Mahi and Rakib Sarker at Gazipur's Bason police station on charges of land grabbing and tarnishing the image of the police.
Rokon Miah, sub-inspector at Bason police station, filed one case on Friday night under the Digital Security Act (DSA), accusing the couple of impairing the law and order situation by spreading fabricated information with the intention of defamation.
GMP Commissioner Molla Nazrul Islam said Mahi had accused the GMP of taking “bribes” on Facebook.
Another case was filed by Ismail Hossain, a resident of the Dighirchala area, who accused the couple of land-grabbing.
