A Dhaka court has placed Murad Hossain Sarkar, a mathematics teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College’s Azimpur campus in Dhaka on a two-day remand in a case filed over sexual harassment of a female student.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Zaki-Al-Farabi granted the remand after Lalbagh Police Station Sub-Inspector Faiyaz Hossain produced the accused before the court on Tuesday and pleaded for a seven-day remand.
Viqarunnisa’s Azimpur campus math teacher arrested over ‘sexual harassment’
Earlier, defence lawyer Shafiqul Islam Dipu and some others filed a bail petition seeking cancellation of the remand petition.
Murad was arrested from his Kalabagan residence in the capital around 12 am on Monday. The decision to suspend him was taken at an emergency meeting of the governing body of Viqarunnisa School on Monday night.
Earlier, On February 7, students submitted complaints to the principal accusing the teacher of sexual harassment.
Last Saturday, the school authority withdrew the senior teacher and subsequently attached him to the principal’s office in the face of demonstration by a section of students and their guardians.
Protesting the withdrawal decision the following day, the students and their guardians started a protest on the school campus, demanding an exemplary punishment of the accused.