Rubel free to fly down under
Pacer Rubel Hossain has no legal bar to fly to Australia to play the ICC World Cup which starts from February 14.
A Dhaka court yesterday cleared the way for the right-arm paceman after he was implicated in a case filed over sexual abuse by actress Naznin Akter Happy.
The court also exempted him from appearing before it for further proceedings and granted him leave to play abroad.
Metropolitan Magistrate Rashed Talukder passed the order after Rubel's lawyer Moniruzzamn Asad submitted two petitions -- one for allowing him to go abroad to play in the upcoming ICC World Cup and the other for exempting him from appearing before the court in person until the completion of the competition.
Rubel was present at the court during yesterday's hearing.
He landed in jail on January 8 and walked out of Dhaka Central Jail three days later on January 11.
Happy had tried to move the High Court to remove Rubel from Bangladesh's World Cup squad and seize his passport until settlement of the case, but the HC rejected her petition, finding no cogent grounds.
Happy filed the case under the Women and Child Repression Prevention Act on December 13, accusing Rubel of luring her into an affair with false promises of marriage. The act registered the fraudulence as a rape charge.
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