Domestic worker's death: HC grants bail to wife of jailed ex-Daily Star executive editor | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Get the Paper
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Wednesday
July 23, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Latest
  • Economy
    • Banking
    • Stocks
    • Industry
    • Analysis
    • Bazaar
    • RMG
    • Corporates
    • Aviation
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Get the Paper
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2025
Domestic worker's death: HC grants bail to wife of jailed ex-Daily Star executive editor

Bangladesh

TBS Report
22 April, 2024, 07:40 pm
Last modified: 22 April, 2024, 10:44 pm

Related News

  • Zero carbon, maximum resilience: The future of climate adaptation strategies
  • Will repay all money if granted bail, won’t run away, ex-Exim Bank chair Nazrul tells court
  • Govt mulls OMS sale of potatoes to ensure fair prices for farmers
  • Bodies of 3 killed in Gopalganj exhumed on court orders, sent to hospital morgue
  • Questions raised over training jets flying above crowded city

Domestic worker's death: HC grants bail to wife of jailed ex-Daily Star executive editor

The HC also issued a rule asking why Ashfaqul Haque should not be granted bail. 

TBS Report
22 April, 2024, 07:40 pm
Last modified: 22 April, 2024, 10:44 pm
Executive Editor of The Daily Star Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker. Photo: Collected
Executive Editor of The Daily Star Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker. Photo: Collected

The High Court yesterday granted bail to Tania Khondokar, wife of former executive editor of The Daily Star Syed Ashfaqul Haque, in the case filed over the death of domestic worker Preeti Urang.

The HC also issued a rule, asking why Ashfaqul Haque should not be granted bail.

A bench of Justice Rezaul Hasan and Justice Fahmida Quader passed the order.

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

Senior lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan appeared on behalf of the defendant. Attorney General AM Amin Uddin appeared for the state.

Khurshid Alam Khan told the media that it was a bailable offence, for which Tania secured interim bail. The state has not yet announced whether an appeal will be filed.

The lawyer said Tania was granted bail on special consideration of her being a female.

There is no bar to Tania Khondokar's release as she has been granted bail, Khurshid said.

Preeti Urang, daughter of a tea worker in Sylhet's Moulvibazar, fell to her death from the eighth-floor apartment of Syed Ashfaqul on 6 February.

The next day, her father, Lukesh Urang, filed a case with Mohammadpur police station, against Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker.

Following the filing of the case, both accused were promptly arrested.

Last year, another teenage maid also fell from Ashfaqul's apartment and suffered severe injuries.

Top News

Preeti Urang / bail / Daily Star / Bangladesh

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Dr CR Abrar. Illustration: TBS
    No intention to resign: Education Adviser CR Abrar in face of students’ demand
  • TBS Illustration
    Dhaka proposes third-round tariff talks on Sunday, awaits US response
  • Caab Director Ahsan Habib. Photo: Collected
    CAAB transfers flight safety and regulation director following Milestone plane crash

MOST VIEWED

  • Screengrab/Video collected from Facebook
    CCTV footage shows how Air Force jet nosedived after technical malfunction
  • Photo: Collected
    Bangladeshi man jailed for life in UK for murdering wife in front of their baby
  • Why Bangladesh's capital market is poised for a bull run
    Why Bangladesh's capital market is poised for a bull run
  • ISPR clarifies crashed plane was battle aircraft, not training jet
    ISPR clarifies crashed plane was battle aircraft, not training jet
  • Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain/TBS
    Secretariat protest: 75 injured in police-protester clash over edu adviser's resignation for delaying HSC rescheduling
  • Exim Bank's former chairman Nazrul Islam Majumder being taken to court on 22 July 2025. Photo: Collected
    Will repay all money if granted bail, won’t run away, ex-Exim Bank chair Nazrul tells court

Related News

  • Zero carbon, maximum resilience: The future of climate adaptation strategies
  • Will repay all money if granted bail, won’t run away, ex-Exim Bank chair Nazrul tells court
  • Govt mulls OMS sale of potatoes to ensure fair prices for farmers
  • Bodies of 3 killed in Gopalganj exhumed on court orders, sent to hospital morgue
  • Questions raised over training jets flying above crowded city

Features

Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS

Aggrieved nation left with questions as citizens rally to help at burn institute

22h | Panorama
Photo: TBS

Mourning turns into outrage as Milestone students seek truth and justice

16h | Panorama
Illustration: TBS

Uttara, Jatrabari, Savar and more: The killing fields that ran red with July martyrs’ blood

1d | Panorama
Despite all the adversities, girls from the hill districts are consistently pushing the boundaries to earn repute and make the nation proud. Photos: TBS

Ghagra: Where dreams rise from dust for Bangladesh women's football

2d | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

Trump announces massive trade deal with Japan

Trump announces massive trade deal with Japan

1h | TBS World
Six unidentified bodies are yet to be identified

Six unidentified bodies are yet to be identified

2h | TBS Today
32 killed in warplane crash in Milestone, live from Burn Institute

32 killed in warplane crash in Milestone, live from Burn Institute

4h | TBS Today
What information did the director of the NBPSI give about the admitted patients?

What information did the director of the NBPSI give about the admitted patients?

14h | TBS Today
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net