Biman MD Shafiqur Rahman arrested over torturing domestic help

Police have arrested Shafiqur Rahman, managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, on allegations of abusing a domestic worker.

He was arrested late Sunday night from his residence in Sector 9 of Uttara in the capital.

Officer-in-charge (OC) of Uttara West police station, Kazi Rafiq Ahmed, told Prothom Alo that Biman Bangladesh’s MD was arrested in a case filed under the Children Repression Prevention Act and sent to court.

According to a police source, a child works as a domestic worker at Shafiqur Rahman’s residence.

He had allegedly been physically assaulting the child for a long time. After the child’s family filed a case at the police station, police arrested him on Sunday night.