Mohammed Shami and wife Hasin Jahan have been engaged in a long-standing public spat and Jahan in March accused Shami of extra-marital affairs, domestic violence, and match-fixing.
Cricketer Mohammed Shami’s World Cup participation chance suffered a huge blow after a charge sheet was filed against him for dowry and his brother for sexual harassment at Alipore court on Thursday.
The Kolkata police filed the chargesheet on complaints by his estranged wife Hasin Jahan under IPC 498A (dowry harassment) and 354A (sexual harassment), with the next hearing scheduled on June 22.
The charges have been registered under non-bailable offenses by Kolkata Police.“Police submitted charge sheet today. Court has now summoned Shami on 22 June,” Lawyer Anirban Guhathakurta told sources on Thursday.
As per sources, Shami also has to be present in person before Alipore court. Police recorded the statement of 28 people before filling the charge sheet in the case.
Hasin Jahan in March had taken to social media to post screenshots of Shami’s alleged affairs with other women.
On March 8 last year, Kolkata police had registered an FIR against Shami, who, along with his family members were booked under section 498 A (Husband or relative of Husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 307 (attempt to murder), 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison), 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of IPC.
The pacer was first stripped of a contract by the BCCI. The board’s anti-corruption officials, however, dismissed the case after investigations, declaring Shami not guilty.
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