Bangladesh cricketer Shahadat Hossain has been sent to prison after he surrendered before a Dhaka court on Monday, a day after police arrested his wife. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Yousuf Hossain rejected his bail petition filed after his surrender. Hossain and his wife had been absconding since a case was registered against them last month under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. The couple is accused of torturing their minor housemaid. Early on Sunday, police arrested the cricketer’s wife Jesmin Jahan from her father’s house at Dhaka’s Malibagh. She was produced before a court, where the police sought remand to question her. The court denied police her custody and sent Jahan to jail. Hossain filed a police complaint on Sep 6 claiming his housemaid had gone missing. But several hours later, the 11-year-old girl surfaced to accuse the cricketer and his wife of regular torture. Police said one Khandkar Mozzamel Haque found the girl at Mirpur and took her to the local police. Haque later filed the case. Hossain last played for Bangladesh in May against Pakistan. He went off the field on the first day of first Test with a leg injury. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) got him treated in Australia and he was undergoing a rehabilitation programme. The BCB had said that the reports of torturing a minor was ‘utterly embarrassing’ and banned the pacer from all forms of cricket until the charges were settled. –bdnews24.com
