Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent The Daily Star Executive Editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker to the jail in a case about the death of a teenage domestic worker who fell from their eighth floor flat in the capital’s Mohammadpur area.
Police sought a five-day remand to quiz the couple in custody on Wednesday following their arrest in the case filed by Lokesh Urang, father of 15-year-old victim Preeti Urang.
But the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque rejected the remand plea and allowed police to quiz them at the jail gates within three days.
Besides, the court rejected the couple’s bail plea.
The charges against the couple involve negligence resulting in death, according to Mahfuzul Haque Bhuiyan, the Chief of Mohammadpur Police Station.
Ashraful Alam, the counsel for the couple, argued that his clients are accused of committing a bail-able offence, culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Meanwhile, Sub-Inspector Md Helal, General Recording Officer (GRO) of the court, objected to the bail petition.
Police recovered the body of Preeti after she had fallen from the residential building adjacent to the Geneva Camp on Shahjahan Road of the area on Tuesday morning.
Locals demonstrated outside the house after the incident, alleging Preeti was murdered.