A student of Barishal University (BU) has placed a written complaint against a teacher alleging physical assault and humiliation.
ABM Mushfiqur Rahman, a 2018-19 session student of the Finance and Banking Department of the university, made the allegation against Suprabhat Haldar, an assistant professor of Law department.
According to his complaint to the Vice-Chancelor (VC), Mushfiqur had failed to hear Haldar call him during a very busy time at the campus, when it was very noisy outside classes.
However Suprabhat got angry, grabbed him by the collar and dragged him to his office room.
Mushfiqur said that the teacher there tore his shirt, physically and verbally assaulted him as well as threatened to ruin his academic career.
University proctor Dr. Khorshed Alam noticed the incident and brought the student out of the teacher's room.
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Proctor Khorshed said that during a law department class at noon, that Suprobhat was taking, some students were being noisy outside and Mushfiqur was one of them.
The assistant professor was calling out to Mushfiqur to ask for quiet, but him not responding led to a misunderstanding that escalated.
The matter was settled eventually through a discussion facilitated by the proctor, or so he thought.
Talking to UNB, Khorshed was surprised that the student went ahead and lodged a written complaint to the VC.
"I don't know," the proctor said, when asked why Mushfiqur would lodge the complaint if the matter was settled.
Suprabhat Haldar could not be reached for comment despite several attempts.