A Dhaka court yesterday directed officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station to submit by June 16 a probe report in connection with a defamation case filed against actress Shomi Kaiser. After primarily hearing, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur passed the order.

Mia Md Nuzhatul Hachan, editor of an online news portal named studentjournalbd.com, filed the defamation case against the actress with the court yesterday for “defaming” journalists by searching them after the actress lost her two smartphones at a programme at Jatiya Press Club on April 24.

According to media reports, after giving a speech at an inaugural ceremony of a website, Shomi Kaiser, president of e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB), noticed that her phones were lost.

Right after that incident, the security guards locked the gates and searched all the journalists and guests present there.