A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges against cricketer Kazi Shahadat Hossain and his wife Jesmin Jahan Nitto for torturing their 11-year-old domestic help.
Judge Tanjina Ismail of Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 5 issued the order after taking cognisance of the charges and scheduled the hearing of charge framing against the couple on February 22.
Both the accused were present at yesterday’s hearing.
The court also granted bail to Nitto until the February 22 hearing, responding to her petition as her previous bail period expired yesterday.
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.
