Though a family court on Sunday said Eriko Nakano would have custody of her two children, now Laila Lina, the younger one of two children, has said that she wanted to stay with her father Imran Sharif in Bangladesh.
Laila Lina is the middle one of the three daughters of Eriko.
She said this in front of the reporters while appearing with her father in the subordinate court premises of Dhaka on Thursday.
On January 29, the court passed the order that the two children will stay with their mother.
Laila Lina said: “I want to stay with my father. I love my father very much. I don't want to go with my mother.”
Father Imran Sharif echoed the same and said that Laila Lina wants to stay with him.
“But her mother is creating pressure on her to take her. But she refused to go. I am concerned about that,” claimed Imran.
Meanwhile, mother Japanese doctor Nakano Eriko came to the court with her elder daughter Nakano Jasmine Malika, 11.
The court is scheduled to hold a hearing on the mother's custody of Laila Lina on Thursday.
On Sunday, Judge Durrana Rahman of Dhaka Family Court pronounced the judgment, saying the mother can take the two children daughter Makano Jasmine Malika and Makano Laila Lina to Japan with her if she wants.
The court said it reached the decision, focusing on the well-being of the two children.
Eriko Nakano married Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif in 2008 in Japan.
They became parents of three children after that. In 2020, Eriko filed a divorce petition with a Japanese court. Imran later took two of their daughters with him and came to Bangladesh.
Eriko too came to Bangladesh and filed a petition with the apex court for the custody of the two children.
The High Court on August 31, 2021, ordered Imran Sharif and Nakano Eriko to live at a Gulshan flat together for 15 days with their two daughters.
The court had asked the Department of Social Services to look over the matter.
The court finally came up with its order as the estranged couple failed to reach a consensus on where and with whom their two daughters Makano Jasmine Malika and Makano Laila Lina will live, in spite of repeated instructions from the court.
However, on February 13, 2022, the Supreme Court said until the disposal of the case by the Dhaka family court, the two children will remain in the custody of their mother, while their father can meet them in the house.
