Bangladesh
Japanese Children Custody Japanese children custody: Daughters to stay with mother till January 3, orders court
Own representative, Dhaka, 15 December 2021: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled that the two daughters will stay with their Japanese mother till January 3. However, father Imran Sharif will be able to meet the children at any time between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm every day. The names of these two daughters are Jasmine Malika (11) and Laila Lina (10).
A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order on Wednesday (December 15) morning after hearing the Japanese mother's appeal. Earlier on Sunday (December 12), the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court had directed the girls to stay at their mother's house in Gulshan for two days. According to the order, they were supposed to stay with their mother from 10:00 pm that day. But that order was not obeyed by the father.
According to Shishir Monir, lawyer for Japanese mother Erico, Erico Nakano (46) married Sharif Imran (58) on July 11, 2008. They married according to Japanese law. After marriage they moved to Tokyo. In a family of 12 years, three daughters were born.
They are Jasmine Malika (11), Laila Lina (10) and Sania Hena (7). Erico is a physician by profession. The three girls were students at the American School in Japan (ASJI) in Chofu City, Tokyo.
Erico divorced Sharif Imran on January 18 this year. On January 21, Imran appealed to the American School in Japan to take his daughter Jasmine Malik away. The school authorities rejected Imran's offer without Erico's consent. Then one day Jasmine Malika and Laila Lina on their way home in the school bus from the bus stop Imran took them to another rented house.
