The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today (July 24) granted permission to the Kirulapone Police to detain MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife who was arrested in connection with the death of an underage domestic aide at the parliamentarian’s private residence. Accordingly, Shabdeen Ayesha, 46, will be interrogated for 48 hours under detention orders. Meanwhile, the Borella Police has obtained a 48-hour detention order on the lawmaker’s father-in-law Mohamed Shabdeen, brother-in-law and the intermediary who provided child labour to the Bathiudeen family. The four suspects were produced before Colombo Additional Magistrate Kanchana Neranjala de Silva earlier today. The results of the post-mortem on the girl’s death had revealed that she had been sexually exploited.

Source: The Nation July 24, 2021 06:45 UTC