A Dhaka court has sent cricketer Kazi Shahadat Hossain to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case filed for torturing his domestic help.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Yusuf Hossain passed the order on Monday afternoon.
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Earlier in the day, Shahadat surrendered before the court and filed the bail plea.
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.