Dhaka, March 18 -- Sharmin Akter Nipa, better known by her screen name Mahiya Mahi, has secured bail hours after her arrest in a case under the Digital Security Act on charges of making 'false and defamatory' comments about the police on social media.

A Gazipur court also ordered her to jail after her arrest on Saturday, but later granted her bail in the evening.

Sadat Sarker, the lawyer for the pregnant actress, said they did not get the time to file a bail petition when Metropolitan Magistrate Md Iqbal Hossain passed the order to send her to jail in the afternoon. They later filed the petition and secured her bail in two cases, he said.

She was arrested in the Dhaka airport area on Saturday shortly after returning from Umrah, an Isla...