Entertainment Desk: Actress Shami Kaiser has been arrested by the police. He was arrested by the Uttara East police station on Tuesday night (November 5) from Uttara in the capital. Shami was a popular actress in the 90s and later worked as a producer.

Uttara Division Deputy Commissioner of Police (DC) Ronak Jahan confirmed the arrest.

The victim himself filed this case in Dhaka's CMM court on October 9 on the charge of attempting to kill a BNP worker named Syed Hasan Mahmud. Apart from Shami Kaiser, 17 people including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, actress Tarana Halim, singer Mumtaz have been accused in the case.

The leaders and activists of the party have been arrested since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government on August 5. This actress was arrested in that sequence.

Shami Kaiser became controversial by making various comments in the anti-discrimination student movement. Moreover, he was accused of insulting BNP founder Ziaur Rahman. A defamation case of Tk 100 crore has been filed against Shami Kaiser.

The case was filed in Magura Senior Judicial Magistrate Court on October 13 by a person named Mohammad Rezwan Kabir. However, he has been arrested in a case of student protest murder.

Earlier on August 14, Shami Kaiser resigned from the post of President of E-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (E-CAB), the organization of e-commerce companies in the country.

Note that Shami was born in 1970. His father's name is Shahidullah Qaiser and mother's name is Panna Qaiser. His mother Panna is a writer and former Member of Parliament. Former President AQM Badrudduja Chowdhury's wife Maya Panna's sister. Shami Kaiser and politician Mahi B Chowdhury are cousins.