A court here on Sunday acquitted former national cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife Nityo Shahadat of housemaid torture case as the prosecution could not prove the allegations brought against the couple. 

Judge Tanjina Ismail of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 passed the order.

Shahadat and his wife Nityo were present at the courtroom when the verdict was announced. 

On September 6, 2015, Mahfuza Akhter Happy, 11, domestic help of Shahadat's residence, was found lying injured on a road in the Sangbadik Colony area of Pallabi in the city. 

Happy claimed that Shahadat Hossain and his wife tortured her. 

On September 7, 2015, a journalist named Mojammel Hossain filed a case against Shahadat and Nityo with Mirpur Model Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000. 

Police arrested Shahadat's wife from the city's Malibagh area on October 4, 2015. Shahadat surrendered before the court the following day. 

On September 13 of the same year, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) suspended Shahadat. 

On December 27, 2015, police pressed charges against the couple in the case.unb.