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Japanese mother pleads contempt of court against father of two Japanese Children Custody
Collected The three children with their parents

Japanese mother pleads contempt of court against father of two

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 16 May 2022, 07:45 pm

Dhaka, May 16: The Japanese mother of the two children, Jasmine Malika and Laila Lena, have filed a contempt of court petition against Bangladeshi national Imran Sharif for disobeying the court order.

The petition was filed in the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Hasan Fayez Siddiqui. The court has fixed Monday for hearing the petition. Senior Advocate Barrister Ajmalul Hossain QC was in favor of the application in the court. He was assisted by Advocate Mohammad Shishir Monir.

Lawyer Shishir Monir told reporters that the Appellate Division had instructed him to stay in Baridhara with the mother of two children. Parents will be able to meet the children. Disobeying this instruction, Imran Sharif forcibly went out with the children from time to time. That is why we have filed a contempt of court petition.

Earlier on February 13, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court had ordered that two Bangladeshi girls of Japanese descent be kept in the custody of their mother, Nakano Erico, a Japanese citizen.

The two children will remain with their mother until the case is settled in the Dhaka Family (Assistant Judge) Court. The Appellate Division also directed the family court to dispose of the case within three months.

According to the order of the Appellate Division, the two children have been in the custody of the mother since December 12 last year. However, their parents can visit them every day at a convenient time between 9 am and 9 pm.

On November 21 last year, the High Court ruled that Jasmine Malika and Laila Lina would remain in the custody of their father Imran Sharif in Bangladesh. It says that since the mother is a Japanese citizen, living and working there, she can come to Bangladesh at her own convenience and spend time alone with her two children three times a year for 10 days. The mother appealed to the Appellate Division against the High Court order. Following the hearing on the appeal, the Appellate Division directed the father to return the two children to the mother on December 12 last year.