Ex-Biman MD sent to jail in housemaid assault case

A Dhaka court has sent former Managing Director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Dr Md Shafiqur Rahman, to jail in a case filed over the alleged assault of his 11-year-old domestic help, reports BSS.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Alberuni Mir passed the order on Friday. Another accused, housemaid Sufia Begum, gave her confessional statement under Section 164 and was also sent back to jail.
Earlier, on February 10, a Dhaka court placed Shafiqur on a five-day remand, his wife Bithi on a seven-day remand, and housemaids Rupali Khatun and Sufia Begum on five- and six-day remands respectively.
The four were first sent to jail on February 2 after being arrested from their Uttara Sector-9 residence.