Bangladeshi cricketer Shahadat Hossain acquitted in maid torture case

A Bangladesh court yesterday acquitted cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife on charges of torturing an 11-year-old girl whom he employed as a maid, a prosecutor said

Bangladeshi cricketer Shahadat Hossain (centre) outside a court in Dhaka yesterday after being acquitted in a maid torture case. Pic/AFP

Dhaka: A Bangladesh court yesterday acquitted cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife on charges of torturing an 11-year-old girl whom he employed as a maid, a prosecutor said.

Police last year charged the 30-year-old fast bowler and his wife Nritto Shahadat with assault and torture after the young girl was found crying by the roadside with her eyes bruised and swollen.

"The couple have been released as the prosecution failed to prove them guilty," prosecutor Ali Asgar from the women and children repression prevention tribunal said.

The couple pleaded not guilty to the charges which were brought after the girl lodged complaint against them. The cricketer spent two months in custody after surrendering to police in October last year, and his wife was arrested.

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