Police arrested music director Shawkat Ali Emon in his house in the capital's Eskaton early yesterday following allegations against him of blackmailing his wife with uploading naked pictures of her on the internet.
A team of Ramna police raided his house shortly after midnight and detained him. Emon was produced before a Dhaka court, which sent him to jail.
Emon's wife had lodged a case on Monday accusing the 45-year-old director of taking nude pictures, and blackmailing her with them.
She claimed that he threatened to upload the photos on Facebook and other internet sites if she did not pay him Tk 5 crore. Sub-inspector of Ramna Police Station Abul Kalam Azad said Emon refuted the allegations, but police found inconsistency in his statements during questioning.