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“As the matter was not settled, we sent the child to Victim Support Centre. The court will decide on this,” he said.
On Sunday, a Dhaka family court granted Japanese citizen Eriko Nakano custody of her two children -- Nakano Jasmine Malika, 11, and Nakano Laila Lina, 9.
The court said it reached the decision, considering the well-being of the children. The same court also dismissed the case filed by Imran Sharif in February last year, seeking the custody of the children.
In her general diary, Eriko Nakano said she could not contact her younger daughter, who was staying with her father at his Gulshan residence before the court ruling, despite making several attempts. She said her mail to Imran got no reply.
Moreover, she claimed that the father and daughter weren’t living in the house for the last two weeks.
Rab’s Legal and Media Wing Director Commander Khandaker Al Moin told media that they had to intervene as the father went into hiding, defying the court order, without handing over the younger child to the mother.
In 2008, Eriko married Imran in Japan.
In 2021, he filed a divorce petition with a Japanese court, following which Imran took two of their daughters with him and came to Bangladesh.
Eriko too came to Bangladesh and filed a petition with the apex court for the custody of the children.
Longer-range
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Kolomoiskiy dressed in a sweatsuit and looking on in the presence of an SBU security service officer at his home.
The SBU said it had uncovered the embezzlement of more than $1 billion at Ukraine’s biggest oil company, Ukrnafta, and its biggest refiner, Ukrtatnafta. Kolomoiskiy, who has long denied wrongdoing, once held stakes in both firms, which Zelensky ordered seized by the state in November under martial law.
Separate raids were carried out at the tax office, and the home of Arsen Avakov, who led Ukraine’s police force as interior minister from 2014-2021. The SBU said it was cracking down on “people whose actions harm the security of the state in various spheres” and promised more details in coming days.
In the battleground, Russian forces are making incremental gains in their push to take territory in Ukraine’s eastern province of Donetsk, focusing on the town of Bakhmut north of the regional capital.
Bakhmut has suffered a relentless bombardment for months, as Russian forces resorted to the same destructive tactics they used to capture two cities further north - Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk - in June and July.
Russian forces on Tuesday made no headway in attempts to advance on Avdiivka, the second focal point of Russian attacks in Donetsk region, Kyiv’s military general staff said.
Russian forces also tried to advance near Lyman, a town further north in Donetsk region that was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in October, the military said.