Feni, Apr 20 (UNB) – Two more persons, suspected of being involved in the murder of madras student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, were arrested on Saturday.

The arrestees – Iftekhar Hossain Rana and Emran Hossain Mamun – are residents of Chargonesh in Sonagazi upazila.

“They were planners of Nusrat’s murder,” said Sub-Inspector Md Shah Alam of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).

Rana was arrested in Rangamati and Mamun in Cumilla.

Mamun is a former student of Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Madrasa where Nusrat was a student, said Md Moniruzzaman, additional superintendent of PBI.

Nusrat was set on fire on April 6, allegedly for refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment case against madrasa principal Sirajuddoula.

She died five days later at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Dhaka, Apr 20 (UNB) – The government has directed all the educational institutions under the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) to form five-member committees to prevent incidents of sexual harassment.
 
DSHE director (college and admin) Shahedul Khabir Chowdhury said they have sent the notice to all the government and non-government educational institutions along with the 2009 High Court directive in this regard.
 
According to the notice, all the educational institutions will have to form the five-member committees and publish those on their websites.
 
The order came as the incidents of sexual harassment of female students have marked an alarming rise across the country.
 

Feni, Apr 20 (UNB) – Awami League leader Ruhul Amin was placed on a five-day remand on Saturday for his alleged involvement in the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Shoraf Uddin Ahmed passed the order after Police Bureau of Investigation produced him before the court.

Amin is the chief of the ruling party’s Sonagazi Upazila unit and the vice-president of Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa’s governing committee. Nusrat was a student of the madrasa.

Police detained him from his house on Friday afternoon and showed him arrested in the murder case.

Nusrat was set on fire on April 6, allegedly for refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment case against madrasa principal Sirajuddoula.

She died five days later at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Netrokona, Apr 20 (UNB)- The government is working hard to ensure the welfare of journalists, prime minister’s deputy press secretary Hasan Zahid Tushar said Saturday.

“The government believes in the freedom of press and doesn’t support yellow journalism,” he told a views exchange meeting with journalists at Netrokona press club.

Advocate Abdul Hannan Ranjan, vice-president of Netrakona press club, presided over the programme while local parliamentarian Habiba Rahman spoke as the special guest.
 

Chandpur, Apr 20 (UNB) – Police on Saturday afternoon arrested a person from Kalir Bazar in Faridganj Upazila for raping a fifth grader after a case filed on Friday.

The arrestee was identified as Sohel Hossain, 32, of the village.

Abdur Rokib, officer-in-charge of Faridganj Police Station, said taking advantage of an empty house on Thursday afternoon, neighbour Sohel Hossain called the girl inside while she was playing on the yard and violated her.

Later, victim's mother filed the case with the police station against Sohel on Friday in this regard. The victim girl was sent to Chandpur General Hospital for medical test on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Sohel has been produced before the court seeking remand for seven days for interrogation.