Daily Star journalist, his wife denied bail

A Dhaka court dismissed the bail petitions of Daily Star executive editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khandaker in a case filed 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 Farah Diba Chanda passed the order after the hearing in the case on Tuesday (February 20).

Earlier on February 18, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury sent Daily Star executive editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khandaker to jail on completion of a four-day remand in the case.

On February 13, the court put Ashfaqul and his wife Tania on a four-day remand each in the case when police produced them before the court with a 10-day demand prayer.

On February 7, the court sent the couple to jail after rejecting their remand and bail petitions.

The court asked police to interrogate them in jail gate for three days.

Fifteen-year-old Preeti Urang, daughter of Moulvibazar’s Lokesh Urang, used to work 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.