Dhaka, May 20 -- Dhallywood actress Nusraat Faria has been released from jail a day after she was sent to judicial custody in an attempted murder case filed over an incident during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement protests.

After securing bail on Tuesday morning, she was released from Gazipur Kashimpur Women's Central Jail at 3:30pm.

Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman had issued the bail order based on a petition from Nusraat's lawyer Mohammad Iftekhar Hossain.

"We had submitted a special put-up requesting Nusraat Faria's bail," he said.

"After the hearing, the court granted bail until the police report in the case was submitted and set a Tk 5,000 bond. We will now file a bail application. We hope that she w...