A Dhaka tribunal today framed charges against Bangladeshi cricketer Al-Amin Hossain in a case filed on charge of torturing his wife Ishrat Jahan and demanding dowry from her.
Al-Amin, now on bail, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice after Judge Mafroza Parvin of Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 read out the charges to him.
Before that, the tribunal dismissed the petition submitted by his lawyer for discharging him from the charges of the case.
The tribunal also show-caused Al-Amin, asking him to explain by April 9 why his bail will not be cancelled in the case.
The order came after his wife submitted an application, seeking cancellation of his bail on grounds that Al-Amin had repeatedly been pressurising her to withdraw the case.
On February 2, Inspector Md Sohel Rana of Mirpur Model Police Station, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against Al-Amin to the Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court.
On September 6 last year, the High Court granted eight weeks' anticipatory bail to Al-Amin after he surrendered before it in the case.
Ishrat filed the complaint with Mirpur Police Station on September 1 last year alleging that Al-Amin tortured and physically abused her for dowry of Tk 20 lakh.
On the following day, Ishrat filed another case with a Dhaka court, claiming Tk 1,00,000 as maintenance per month under Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, 2010.
