DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Case filed against cricketer Saikat
UNB
A case was recorded against the Bangladesh national team cricketer Mosaddek Hossain Saikat over domestic violence yesterday. The news will come as a blow to those who believe Saikat, 22, to be the most promising batting talent of his generation in the country, reports UNB.
Yet it continues an alarming trend for young Bangladeshi cricketers gaining the fame and adulation that comes from representing the country relatively early on in their careers, while continuing to engage in appalling behavior off the field. Domestic violence would seem to be a particular predilection.
Saikats wife Samia Sharmin registered the case under Dowry Prevention Act against the cricketer and his mother Parul Begum with the cognizance court of Mymensingh Senior Judicial Magistrate-1, alleging domestic violence over dowry and extra-marital affairs of the cricketer.
I want a fair judgement and exemplary punishment for his (Saikat) crimes, said Samia.
Taking the complaint into account, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of the court Rozina Khan ordered the investigating officer and womens affairs officer of the court to submit a report on their veracity.
According to the case statement, Saikat used to routinely subject Samia to torture whenever she tried to stop his alleged extra-marital affairs. One such episode even caused her to have a miscarriage, but she said she remained silent and soldiered on to maintain their conjugal relationship. The statement also reads, on August 15, Saikat and his mother tortured Samia after she refused to bring them TK 10 lakhs from her father as they demanded.
