A Dhaka court has acquitted The Daily Star Executive Editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker, who are now in jail, in a case filed over the fall of minor domestic help Ferdausi from their residence in the capital that left her injured seven months ago.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Zaki Al Farabi passed the order on 19 February after accepting the final report submitted by police in the case, revealed the general registration branch of Mohammadpur police station at the court on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Syed Ashfaqul and his wife Tania are now in jail in another case – filed over the death of their domestic help Preeti Urang falling from their residence in the same manner.
Ferdausi fell from the balcony of Syed Ashfaqul Haque’s 7th-floor house adjacent to the Geneva Camp on Shahjahan Road in Mohammadpur on 6 August 2023, leaving her seriously injured.
Victim’s mother Josna Begum filed a case against Syed Ashfaqul, his wife Tania and another person named Asma Akhtar Shilpi over the incident.
Allegations of damage to different parts of the child's body due to torture,

and neglect by keeping the child in custody and engaging her in personal work were brought in the case statement.
 Josna said her daughter Ferdausi, 7, was employed at the house of Syed Ashfaqul through Shilpi.
 However, the couple did not allow her to talk to Ferdausi over the phone.

Tania also used to beat her and to escape the persecution, the little girl jumped off the flat through the unsecured window.
Preeti Urang, 15, died after falling from the flat on 6 February.
 Victim’s father Lokesh Urang filed a case over the incident.
 In the case statement, he said his daughter had been sent to Dhaka two years ago to work as a domestic help, aiming to alleviate their family’s financial struggles.
 Throughout this period, Preeti Urang, a member of the ethnic Urang community, never visited her family with Lokesh relying on occasional phone calls to the house owner to stay in touch.