Online Desk: Expelled Awami League leader and Joyjatra Television chairman Helena Jahangir and four others have been jailed for two years each in an extortion case. Besides, they also fined Tk 2,000 each. In default, the five will have to suffer two months more in prison.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain delivered the judgement in presence of the convicts. Other four convicts are Joyjatra Television  manager Hazera, chief news editor Kamruzzaman Arif, co-ordinator Sanaullah Nuri and staff reporter Mahfuz Shahriar.

On 29 July, 2021, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained Helena Jahangir from her Gulshan house and seized foreign liquors, illegal walkie-talkie sets, sharp weapons, foreign currencies, casino equipment and a deer hide.

On August 2, 2021, Joyjatra Television’s Bhola district correspondent Abdur Rahman Tuhin filed the case being the plaintiff. After investigation, Criminal Investigation Department (CID)’s inspector and investigation officer of the case Shahinur Islam submitted chargesheet to a court against Helena Jahangir and four others on November 21, 2021. On April 18 last year, the court ordered trial of the case after framing charges against Helena and four others.