A Dhaka court has granted ad-interim bail to Jesmin Jahan Nitto Shahadat, wife of national cricket player Kazi Shahadat Hossain, until January 17 in a case filed for torturing their domestic help.
Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Mohammad Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order on Tuesday morning.
Nitto’s counsel Nazmul Hossain confirmed about the bail to the Dhaka Tribune.
Police arrested Nitto at Pabna Lane in the capital’s Malibagh area on October 4.
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 their domestic help 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.