A Dhaka court yesterday sent Kazi Shahadat Hossain, a suspended national cricketer, to jail after completion of his three-day police remand in a case filed for torturing his domestic help.
Metropolitan Magistrate Kazi Kamrul Hossain passed the order when Mirpur police Officer-in-Charge Md Shafiqur Rahman, also investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court.
The IO told the court that the accused needed to be in custody for the sake of proper investigation.
The court also rejected the bail petition submitted by Shahadat’s lawyer Kazi Md Nazibullah Hiru.
Shahadat, who had been on run since the injured 10-year-old domestic help was rescued, surrendered before a Dhaka court on October 5, a day after the arrest of his wife Jasmine Jahan Nitto.
On September 6, journalist Khandker Mozzamel Haque found the child lying injured on a road in Sangbadik Colony area of Pallabi. Later, he took her to the police station and filed the case under section 4 (2) of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000.
Shahadat was suspended by Bangladesh Cricket Board on September 13.