A Dhaka court has framed charges against national cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife Jesmine Jahan Nitto in a case filed over torturing their 11-year-old domestic help.
Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 5 Judge Tanjina Ismail passed the order on Monday afternoon.
The court also fixed March 20 for recording the deposition in the case.
Mirpur police station OC (investigation) Md Shafiqur Rahman, who is also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against the couple on December 29 last year.
Earlier, suspended national cricketer Shahadat secured bail from the High Court on December 8 citing health issues, while Nitto was granted bail on December 1 as she has a nursing baby.
According to the case, a journalist named Khandkar Mozammel Haque found the 11-year-old child, who used to work as a housemaid at Shahadat’s residence, lying injured on the street in a Pallabi neighbourhood in the capital on September 6.
The victim told him how Shahadat and Nitto beat her mercilessly and, no longer able to endure the torture, she fled their residence.
Mozammel took her to police and filed a case against the couple with Mirpur Model police station under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000 the next day.
