Court grants DNA test

A Dhaka court yesterday granted police the use of DNA tests in a case film actress Naznin Akhter Happy filed with Mirpur Model Police Station on December 13 accusing Bangladeshi cricketer Rubel Hossain of luring her into an extramarital affair with false promises of marriage.

The women and children repression prevention act, under which the case was filed, registers the fraudulence as a rape charge. The High Court granted Rubel a four-week anticipatory bail on December 15.

Earlier, Dhaka Medical College provided Mirpur police a forensic test report stating that Happy was not raped recently.

Criticising the use of “recent”, Happy told The Daily Star that after “physical relations” for the last nine months, Rubel had refused her on December 1, after which she had tried to reach a solution.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mustafizur Rahman passed the order following a petition filed by Sub-inspector Masud Pervez, the investigation officer. Police collected some samples from Happy and Rubel's Mirpur residence.