A Dhaka court on Sunday sent Daily Star executive editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khandaker to jail after a four-day remand in a case over the death of a domestic worker who fell to her death from their flat on the eighth floor of a building at Shajahan road in Mohammadpur area of the capital on February 6.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury passed the order when Nazmul Hasan, sub-inspector of Mohammadpur Police Station and also the investigation officer (IO) of the case produced them before the court on completion of their remand.
On February 13, the court put Ashfaqul and his wife Tania on a four-day remand each in the case when the IO of the case, produced
them before the court with a 10-day demand prayer.
Advocate Chaitanno Chandra Haldar filed a petition seeking bail for his clients. 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.
