A Dhaka court yesterday fixed October 8 (tomorrow) for hearing a plea seeking remand for national cricketer Kazi Shahadat Hossain in a case filed for torturing domestic help.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Nuru Mia passed the order while Investigation Officer Shafiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Mirpur Model Police Station, sought a seven-day remand for quizzing Shahadat.
The petition was filed with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.
Shahadat, who had been on the run since the injured 10-year-old domestic help was rescued, surrendered on Monday.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yusuf Hossain passed the order after Shahadat surrendered before the court and sought bail in the case.
Shahadat surrendered two days after police arrested his wife Jasmin Jahan Nitto from one of her relatives’ house at Malibagh in Dhaka.
However, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yunus Khan on Sunday allowed police to interrogate Nitto at jail gate for three days, rejecting both bail and five-day remand prayer for her.
On September 6, cricketer Shahdat and his wife were sued for torturing their housemaid Mahfuza Akter Happy at their Mirpur residence.
Journalist Khandaker Mozammel Hossain filed the case with Mirpur Model Police Station under Section 4 (2) of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000.
According to the case documents, on September 6, plaintiff Mozammel found the 11-year-old with marks of injuries on her face and bruises across her body in Pallabi Journalist Colony area.
He was then told by the victim that Shahadat and his wife Nitto had been torturing her since she began work at their house around a year ago.
As she could not endure such torture any more, she fled from the residence of Shahadat on that morning. Mozammel then took her to Mirpur Model Police Station and filed the case against Shahdat and his wife.