Shahadat sent back to custody

Bangladesh fast bowler Shahadat Hossain was sent back to jail after completing a three-day remand in Dhaka on Tuesday. Dhaka Metropolitan magistrate Kazi Kamrul Islam denied him bail after the probe officer Shafiqur Rahman, the officer-in-charge (investigation) of Mirpur model police station, appealed for the cricketer's confinement during investigation of a case filed against him for allegedly torturing a housemaid.

He was arrested on October 5 after he surrendered before a Dhaka court and had sought bail. His wife was arrested the day before from her father's house.

On September 6, the case had been filed against the couple under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. The 11-year old girl was found by a journalist in Mirpur and was taken to the police station where the case was filed, and she was sent to the Dhaka Medical College for treatment.