Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Gulshan Police Station Kazi Nure Alam, who is also the IO of the case, filed the petition with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court, Dhaka.

Bidisha, now under treatment at the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, was taken on a three-day remand on June 5. The IO in the petition said she gave important information during interrogation while on remand. But she needs to be quizzed further and intensively, he added.

The defence opposed the move arguing that the matters relating to interrogation and bail are now at the discretion of the High Court (HC).

On hearing both the sides, Metropolitan Magistrate Mir Ali fixed June 16 as the next date for hearing on the issue, subject to receipt of the HC order.

Ershad filed the case on June 4 accusing Bidisha of theft, rampage, and making threats against him. Gulshan police arrested her the same day. But later she was shown arrested in a passport forgery case.

Ershad, also the chairman of Jatiya Party (JP), is now abroad and will return shortly.

The same court yesterday rejected the bail petition of Jasmin alias Sangma, domestic help of Bidisha, arrested in connection with the theft case. The court ordered the police to send her to the Dhaka Central Jail. Gulshan police produced her before the court on completion of a two-day remand.

Meanwhile, a bail petition on behalf of Bidisha was moved yesterday but the HC asked her counsels to file a bail petition with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, Dhaka, as the CMM's Court has already rejected the petition twice.

Laws say if a bail petition is rejected in a lower court, it should be moved to the immediate next higher court.