A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted bail to former Managing Director and CEO of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Shafiqur Rahman, in a case filed over the alleged torture of a child domestic worker.

Dhaka’s Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Moin Uddin Chowdhury granted him bail on a bond of Tk 5,000 until submission of the police report.

Defense lawyer Khorshed Alam applied for the bail.

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The case was filed on February 1 by Golam Mostafa, the father of the victim, against Shafiqur Rahman, his wife Bithi, and two domestic helps- Rupali Khatun and Sufia Begum.

Following the case, all the accused were arrested.

On February 2, a court rejected their bail petitions and sent them to jail.

Later, police took them on remand for questioning.

According to the case statement, the accused had been looking for a young girl to take care of a child at their residence in Uttara Sector 9 and allegedly promised to bear the cost of her future marriage.

The complainant sent his daughter to work at their home in June last year. He last visited her on November 2 but was not allowed to meet her again afterwards.

On January 31, Bithi informed him over the phone that his daughter was ill and asked him to take her back. When he brought her home, he found severe injuries on her hands and other parts of the body, and she was unable to speak properly.

As the accused failed to give a satisfactory explanation, the girl was admitted to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital in Gazipur.

The victim later told her father that she had been subjected to repeated abuse at the house, including physical assault and being burned with heated kitchen tools, according to the case statement.