The Supreme Court has upheld a previous order of the High Court that stayed the proceedings of the case filed against army major Nazir Uddin for allegedly torturing his wife for dowry.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order on Monday, disposing the leave to appeal filed by the prosecution.
The court stayed the transfer of the case to a military court.
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On August 12, the High Court stayed the case proceedings as the victim’s father had questioned whether a case lodged under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act could be tried in a military court.
The victim, Dhaka University’s MBA first-semester student Nusrat Jahan Tushti, was rescued from her in-law’s house in Tangail’s Kalihati in critical condition and admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on March 30.
She was tortured for dowry allegedly by her husband and father-in-law Idris Ali, also a retired army officer.
They also assaulted Tushti’s mother Shahnaz Akter and brother Muyeed Hasan when they tried to stop them.
The case was filed with the special court in Tangail on April 2.
Maj Nazir was a platoon commander at the Bangladesh Military Academy in Chittagong’s Bhatiari during the incident and brought back to Dhaka after the allegations surfaced.