Cricketer Shahadat on 3-day remand

--Cops seek 7-day remand for Shahadat

--Court rejects his bail petition

--Accepts 3-day remand

A Dhaka court today placed suspended national cricketer Shahadat Hossain on a three-day remand in a case filed for torturing his 11-year-old domestic help.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yusuf Hossain passed the order after Mirpur police produced him before the court seeking a seven-day remand for him in the case.

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The court also rejected a petition filed by Shahadat seeking bail and cancellation of the remand prayer. 

His lawyer, in the petition, said he is not involved in torturing his domestic help as he had to stay in camps for cricket purpose.

Earlier on October 5, the court sent Shahadat to jail after he surrendered before it seeking bail.

The court on that day denied Shahadat's bail petition considering the seriousness of the allegations brought against him in the first information report of the case.

Shahadat surrendered two days after police arrested his wife Jesmine Jahan Nrittya at one of her relatives' house at Malibagh in Dhaka.

On September 6, domestic help Mahfuza Akhtar Happy brought the allegations of torture by Shahadat and his wife. Later, a case was filed against the couple with Mirpur Police Station.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) temporarily suspended Shahadat on September 13 following the allegation.