The High Court has granted bail today to Tania Khondokar, the wife of Syed Ashfaqul Haque, former executive editor of The Daily Star, in a case filed over the death of a teenage domestic help at their home in the capital's Mohammadpur area.
Syed Ashfaqul Haque, however, has been denied bail again.
Justice Rezaul Hasan and Justice Fahmida Quader issued the bail along with a rule questioning why Ashfaqul Haque should not also be granted bail.
Senior lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan represented the defendant, while Attorney General AM Amin Uddin appeared on behalf of the state.
"It was a bailable offence, and Tania has secured interim bail accordingly," Khurshid Alam Khan told the media.
The state has not yet decided whether to file an appeal.
There is no bar to Tania Khondokar's release as she has been granted bail, Khan said.
Preeti Urang, the daughter of a tea worker from Sylhet's Moulvibazar, tragically fell to her death from the eighth-floor apartment of Syed Ashfaqul Haque on 6 February.
In response, her father, Lukesh Urang, lodged a complaint against Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker at Mohammadpur police station the following day.
Subsequently, the couple was swiftly arrested.
Last year, another teenage maid also fell from Ashfaqul's apartment and suffered severe injuries.
