The High Court has granted bail to Kazi Shahadat Hossain, a suspended national cricketer, in a case filed for torturing his domestic help.
The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Amir Hossain granted the bail till March 31.
The court also issued a rule upon the government asking why Shahadat would not be granted regular bail in the case. The government has been asked to respond to the rule within three weeks.
On October 5, Shahadat surrendered before a Dhaka court.
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Police arrested Shahadat's wife Jesmin Jahan Nitto at Pabna Lane in the capital’s Malibagh area on October 4.
On September 6, journalist Khandkar Mozzamel Haque found Mahfuza Akhter Happy, 11, the domestic help of Shahadat’s residence, lying injured on a road in Sangbadik Colony area of Pallabi in Dhaka.
Happy told the journalist that cricketer Shahadat and his wife Nitto tortured her.
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Later, journalist Mozzamel took her to the police station and filed the case with Mirpur Model Police Station under Section 4 (2) of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000.
On September 21, domestic help Happy gave her statement before a Dhaka court on how she was subjected to physical abuse by the cricketer and his wife.
After the incident, on September 13, pacer Shahadat was temporally suspended by the Bangladesh Cricket Board.