A Dhaka court on Sunday sent Daily Star executive editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khandaker to jail after a 4-day remand in a case over the death of a domestic worker who fell off their flat on the eighth floor of a building in the city’s Mohammadpur.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury passed the order when police produced them before the court on completion of their remand.
On February 13, the court put Ashfaqul and his wife Tania on a four-day remand each in the case when Nazmul Hasan, in-charge of Mohammadpur police station and also the investigating officer of the case, produced them before the court with a 10-day demand prayer.
Advocate Chaitanya Chandra Halder filed a petition seeking bail for his clients. On February 7, the court sent the couple to jail after rejecting their remand and bail petitions. The court asked police to interrogate them at the jail gate for three days.
Fifteen-year old Preeti Urang, daughter of Moulvibazar’s Lokesh Urang, worked as a domestic help at the flat of Ashfaqul in the capital’s Mohammadpur and she died falling from the flat on February 6.
Preeti had been working at the house of Ashfaqul for two years. Preeti’s father Lokesh Urang filed a case under 304(Ka) of Penal Code after her death.
