Police arrested a madrasa teacher from Daganbhuiyan upazila in Feni for alleged sexual assault on an eight-year old male student on Thursday. The teacher was identified as Mowlana Abdul Jalil,21, resident teacher of Kawmi and Hafezia Madrasa in Bhabanipur village in Rajapur union. “The accused teacher has been on the crime for a long time. Recently the student refused to go back to the madrasa after the vacation ended. As his parents inquired, he informed them of the matter, “ said Joynal Abedin Mamun, Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Rajapur. Md Hasan Imam, officer-in-charge of Daganbhuiyan police station said the teacher was arrested after a case was filed by the student’s father with police. “The man used to threaten to beat the boy and swear by religion to force upon him. He has been jailed by the court and the boy has been sent to hospital for medical tests,” said the OC.    

A 33-year-old madrasa teacher in Panchagarh was arrested on Monday for allegedly sodomising his 12-year-old student. The arrestee has been identified as Yasin Arafat, a resident of Gorgram Majhpara village in Nilphamari district. He was produced in a court that sent him to judicial custody. Police said Yasin sexually assaulted the boy in his room in the madrasa on March 11. The very next day, the boy returned to his home and narrated his ordeal to his parents. Also read: One held over murder of schoolgirl ‘after rape’ in Magura "His parents had initially approached the madrasa authorities. When the madrasa authorities did not act, his parents and local residents caught the accused and handed him over to us," said Abdul Latif Mia, officer-in-charge of Panchagarh Sadar police station. The teacher was booked for the alleged crime and produced in Panchagarh chief judicial magistrate's court. "CJM Humayun Kabir Sarkar sent him to judicial custody," said OC Abdul Latif. Also read: Four tie up man in Khulna, rape wife