Cricketer Shahadat's wife gets bail in domestic help torture case

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to suspended national cricketer Shahadat Hossain's wife Jesmine Nahar Nrittya for 47 days in a case filed for torturing their 11-year-old domestic help Mahfuza Akhter Happy.

Nrittya was granted bail till January 17, 2016 on the ground that she is a mother of an infant.

On September 6, Mahfuza brought the allegation of torture by the couple. Police arrested Nrittya in the capital's Malibagh on October 4 and two days later Shahadat surrendered before a Dhaka court that sent him to jail.