Pori Moni snatches journalist's phone set in anger

Actress Pori Moni has secured bail after surrendering in a case involving ssault, vandalism, and intimidation of businessman Nasir Uddin Mahmud. While leaving a Dhaka court on Thursday, she got into an altercation with a journalist. At one point, Pori Moni snatched the journalist's phone and verbally abused him. The phone was later returned.

Today, Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Mahfuzur Rahman granted her bail on a bond of Tk 500 after hearing the case.

Pori Moni arrived at the court around 9:30 am to surrender. She was accompanied by 11 personal security personnel. She then entered the courtroom at 11:41 am. The bail hearing began in her presence, during which her lawyer, Nilanjana Rifat Surovi, filed the bail application. After the hearing, the court granted her bail.

Pori Moni left the court around 12 noon. At that time, her bodyguards confronted journalists. Later, while getting into her car, Pori Moni alleged that a journalist had touched her. She snatched that journalist's phone and verbally abused him over the matter. The phone was later returned.

The recording of a testimony was scheduled Wednesday in the case. However, Pori Moni did not appear in court and instead filed a time petition through her lawyer, Nilanjana Rifat Survi. The petition said that she could not appear in court due to illness related to allergies.

However, the plaintiff's lawyer, Abul Kalam Mohammad Sohel, objected to the defendant's petition and filed an application to cancel the bail. In the application, he stated that Pori Moni was deliberately not appearing in court and was filing time petitions, which was wasting the court's valuable time. The court then rejected the time petition and issued an arrest warrant against her. It also set December 23 for the taking of testimony.

Earlier, on June 26, 2025, the trial of the case began with the framing of charges. However, as she did not appear in court that day, an arrest warrant was issued against her. The next day, June 27, she surrendered before the court and secured bail.

On July 6, 2022, Nasir Uddin Mahmud, director of Boat Club in Savar, Dhaka, filed the case. After finding the allegations of assault, vandalism, and intimidation to be true, the investigating officer of the case and PBI Inspector Md. Monir Hossain of Dhaka district submitted an investigation report to the court on March 18, 2024. In it, Pori Moni and Junaid Bogdadi Jimi were named as accused. However, no specific allegations against Fatema Tuz Jannat Boni could be proven.

On April 18 of that year, the court accepted the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) investigation report and issued a summons for Pori Moni to appear.

The PBI investigation report said that on the night of June 8, 2021, Pori Moni became angry with Nasir Uddin Mahmud at Dhaka Boat Club after being unable to take a parcel of three liters of Blue Label liquor free of charge. At one point, she threw an ashtray at Nasir Uddin Mahmud, which struck him on the head above his right ear and injured him.The report further mentioned that Nasir Uddin Mahmud bore scratch marks on his chest from broken glass pieces thrown by the accused. In addition, glasses, glass bottles, and ashtrays were thrown and vandalized inside the club's bar. The PBI noted that prima facie evidence of offenses under Sections 323 and 506 of the Penal Code was found against Pori Moni in these incidents.On the other hand, the investigation report also mentioned that prima facie evidence of offenses under the same sections was found against Junaid Bogdadi Jimi on allegations of verbally abusing and assaulting Nasir Uddin Mahmud. However, although Fatema Tuz Jannat Boni was present at the time of the incident, no specific testimonial evidence was found against her.