Dhaka, Sept. 30 -- Mariam Khatun's father wants to keep family ties warm with former Jamaat-e-Islami MP Gazi Nazrul Islam, saying he seeks an "amicable family relationship" with the lawmaker.

The sentiment emerged alongside an out-of-court settlement between the two families, who share mutual relatives, with the defence telling the Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrates' Court on Wednesday that they had resolved their differences.

Mariam's father SM Masum Billah had accused Nazrul and his first wife Maksuda Islam of physically and mentally abusing his daughter, the former MP's second wife, in a case filed over her death.

Defence counsel Mahbubur Rahman told the court that Masum Billah had no objection to the accused being gran...