National cricket player Kazi Shahadat Hossain has surrendered before a court and filed a bail plea in a case filed for torturing his domestic help.
Shahadat filed the bail petition with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Yusuf Hossain through his lawyer Kazi Mohammad Nazibullah Hiru around 10:30am Monday.
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The order on the bail will be given later in the day.
On Sunday, another court had sent Shahadat's wife Jesmin Jahan Nitto Shahadat to jail after rejecting her bail petition in the case.
Police arrested Nitto at Pabna Lane in the capital’s Malibagh area early on the same day.
A journalist named Khandaker Mojammel Hossain filed the case against the couple with Mirpur Model Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000 on September 7 after rescuing Happy, 10, the night before in Pallabi.
Happy, from Jamalpur district, had a blackened eye and injuries all over her body when she was rescued on September 6 night. She said she had escaped Shahadat’s house that morning.
She gave her statement before a Dhaka court on September 21 where she narrated how she was tortured by the cricketer and his wife.