Online Desk  :   Journalist Munni Saha has been released from the custody of the Detective Branch, just hours after being detained from Kawran Bazar in Dhaka last night (November 30). Rezaul Karim Mallick, additional commissioner (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) confirmed the matter. She was handed over to her family on payment of a bond shortly after midnight, he said.

Section 497 of the CrPC allows the release on bail of any person under the age of 16 years or any woman or any sick or infirm person accused of an offence punishable with death, he added. Earlier on Saturday night, a DB team picked up Munni Saha from the Karwan Bazar area around 9:30pm. Munni Saha was arrested after police rescued her from locals in the capital’s Kawran Bazar area. She faces several cases in Dhaka.