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Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:28 PM
Nakano Eriko with her husband and children. Photo: Collected
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Nakano Eriko with her husband and children. Photo: Collected
A Japanese woman has moved to Bangladesh and started a legal battle for custody of her two children. The children are now with her husband, a Bangladesh-born US citizen who applied for divorce in Japan.
Nakano Eriko (46), a doctor from Tokyo in Japan, arrived in Bangladesh on July 18 this year and filed a writ petition with the High Court today, seeking a directive on her husband Sharif Imran (58) and get custody of her daughters.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel. She submitted the petition to the HC through lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir, saying that Sharif Imran, who now lives in Mohammadia Housing Society under Adabor Police Station in Dhaka, may leave Bangladesh with their daughters.
Nakano, in the petition, said that she and Sharif got married on July 11, 2008 in Japan under Japanese law.
They have three daughters Makano Jasmine Malika (11), Makano Laila Lina (9) and Sania Hena (6).
Sharif submitted an application to a Japanese court on January 18 this year to divorce Nakano. But he did not appear before the court on the scheduled dates of hearing.
He picked up their daughters Malika and Lina from their school in Tokyo on January 21 this year and came to Bangladesh with them on February 21.
In the petition, Nakano prayed to the HC to order Sharif to produce the children before the court in three days to demonstrate that they have not been confined illegally.
In the petition, she said Sharif took her daughters and is harassing her by not letting her speak to them.
Lawyer Shishir Manir told The Daily Star that the HC may hold hearing on the petition later in the day.
