DHAKA: A Bangladeshi cricketer Rubel Hossain, who is also in the national Squad for World Cup 2015, was sent behind the bars on the charges of raping an actress.
Media reports said that a magistrate in the capital Dhaka remanded the cricketer in police custody after 19-year-old Naznin Akter Happy lodged a complaint of rape and a false promise of marriage against the cricketer last month.
The court order served a blow to the cricketer’s chance to appear in the next month’s mega event of ICC World Cup.
“The metropolitan magistrate court rejected his bail plea… He was sent to prison pending the next hearing of the case,” news agency AFP quoted deputy commissioner of Dhaka police Anisur Rahman as saying.
Police last month launched a probe after Happy lodged a complaint with police that the fast bowler had backed away from an earlier pledge to marry her after having a months-long “intimate affair”.
After hearing the complaint, a court ordered medical tests on Happy and both the alleged victim and Hossain to undergo DNA tests.
The scandal has gripped the conservative Muslim-majority country for weeks, with Happy telling reporters that she would be prepared to withdraw the case if Rubel agrees to marry her.
The fast bowler has rejected the accusations of rape or making a marriage proposal, saying Happy was trying to “blackmail” him. He also ruled out marrying the actress.
Happy became a household name for her debut movie “Kichu Asha Bhalobasa” (Some Hopes, Some Loves) which hit the cinemas in September 2013.
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