STAFF CORRESPONDENT

A case has been filed against three people after a seven-year-old house help jumped off the seventh floor of an apartment in the capital’s Mohammadpur area on August 4.

The girl’s mother Josna Begum filed the case with Mohammadpur Police Station on Sunday, accusing Executive Editor of The Daily Star Syed Ashfaqul Haque, his wife Tania Khondoker, and Asma Akhter, said Mahfuzul Haque Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station.

In the case statement, the complainant said her daughter jumped off the building to flee as, she alleged, her employer confined her, did not allow her to talk with her and beat her up.

The girl came to the house for work on August 1, reads the case statement.

She is now undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. She is now out of danger, according to attending doctors.

Contacted, Syed Ashfaqul Haque said, “The allegations against us are completely baseless and contrary to the facts.”

“To us, the most important thing is the girl has survived, and is safe,” he added.