Cricketer Shahadat surrenders

National team cricketer Kazi Shahadat Hossain on Monday surrendered before a Dhaka court and sought bail in a case filed for torturing an 11-year-old domestic help.

Shahadat filed the bail petition with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Yusuf Hossain through his lawyer Kazi Mohammad Nazibullah Hiru around 10:30am.

The court is scheduled to hear the petition later in the day.

Shahadat surrendered two days after police arrested his wife from one of her relatives’ house at Malibagh in Dhaka.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has banned Shahadat from all forms of cricket until the conclusion of the case.