A Dhaka tribunal today framed charges against three people, including Uttara Club Limited’s former president Nasir U Mahmud, in an attempted rape and murder case filed by film actress Pori Moni.
The two others are Nasir’s associates Tuhin Siddiqui Omi and Shah Shahidul Alam.
The trio, now on bail, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice after Md Hemayet Uddin of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-9 of Dhaka read out the charges to them.
Earlier in the day, the judge dismissed three separate petitions submitted earlier for discharging them from the charges of the case.
The judge fixed August 1 for starting trial of the case.
On September 6 last year, Mohammad Kamal Hossain, inspector (investigation) of Savar Model Police Station and also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.
Pori Moni filed the attempted rape and murder case against Nasir, also a real estate businessman and presidium member of the Jatiya Party, Omi and four unidentified people on June 14 last year.
A team of detectives carried out a raid at a house in Uttara Sector-1 and arrested Nasir and Omi the same day.
They were also shown arrested in another case filed with Airport Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.
They were earlier charged with the narcotics case after Detective Brach of police found their involvement with possessing 1,000 pieces of yaba pills.
