The Supreme Court ordered that the two children — aged 11 and 9 — will be in their Japanese mother’s custody until February 6, extending its previous directive by another two weeks.
The full Appellate Division bench headed by Justice Md Nuruzzaman gave the order on Sunday after hearing a petition by the mother Eriko Nakano challenging a High Court verdict.
The court scheduled February 6 for the next hearing.
On January 3, the court ordered that the children will be in their mother’s custody till January 23.
Their Bangladesh-born US citizen father can visit them every day during this period and the children must be allowed to go to school, it said at the time.
In its verdict on November 21, the High Court gave the custody of the girls to their father Imran Sharif and said that the mother would be allowed to visit them thrice a year.
Eriko would be able to visit her children for 10 days at a time exclusively and Imran will have to bear her travel and other relevant expenses during the time, the High Court said.
The mother would be able to meet her daughters in Bangladesh at any other time at her own expenses, said the verdict.