A Dhaka court sent Jesmin Jahan Nitto Shahadat, wife of national cricket player Kazi Shahadat Hossain, to jail after rejecting her bail petition in a case filed for torturing their domestic help.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Yunus Khan issued the order yesterday after rejecting the bail petition filed by Nitto’s counsel Kazi Mohammad Nazibullah Hiru.
The court also rejected a remand petition for her, filed by Mirpur Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Shafiqur Rahman seeking to place Nitto on a five-day remand for interrogation.
The court said as Nitto has to nurse her nine-month-old baby, she cannot be placed on remand.
It instructed the investigation officer of the case to interrogate Nitto at the jail gate in three days out of the next five working days.
Nitto’s counsel informed the court that Shahadat would surrender before the court today.
Police arrested Nitto at Pabna Lane in the capital’s Malibagh area early Sunday.
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 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.