The High Court on Monday ordered judicial probe into the humiliation of acting principal of Mirzapur United College Swapan Kumar Biswas in Narail Sadar Upazila. The court also asked Narail's Chief Judicial Magistrate to investigate the incident and submit a report within the next 6 weeks. A vacation bench of Justices Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and SM Moniruzzaman passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK). Read: Data Protection Act 2022 to protect data, not to control it: Anisul Advocates ZI Khan Panna and Aneek R Haque stood for the writ petitioner while advocate Samarendra Nath Biswas represented the state. Earlier on July 4, Advocate Lutfe Jahan Purnima, on behalf of Ain O Salish Kendra, filed a writ petition seeking judicial probe into the humiliation of Narail college teacher Swapan Kumar Biswas over a Facebook post by a student. On June 18, a Hindu student of Mirzapur United Degree College made a post on Facebook supporting suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. Read: Police to help cattle traders transport their cash safely: IGP There was day-long unrest in the college over the post and rumors that acting principal Swapan Kumar Biswas had sided with the student, following which police escorted him out of the campus but not before he was garlanded with shoes. A video of the incident also went viral on social media that sparked huge criticism. Different organisations, including Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, lodged protests over the incident and demanded exemplary punishment of those involved in it.  

Dhaka University Teachers Association (DUTA) has issued an official press release protesting and condemning the killing and humiliating teachers. "Recently, two different incidents of teacher torture have come to the notice of the Dhaka University Teachers' Association.  Swapan Kumar Biswas, principal of Mirzapur United College in Narail Sadar Upazila, has been accused of harboring so-called blasphemers in an incident on June 18," the press release reads. Read: College teacher ‘beaten by students with cricket stump’ dies in Savar  "In another incident, Utpal Kumar Sarkar, a college teacher in Ashulia, Savar, died on June 26 while undergoing treatment at the ICU after being beaten by his students."  "In both cases there is a complete breakdown of social tolerance.  In recent times, the indifference of a class of people towards religion has been hurting the non-communal consciousness and values of the country. We believe that religious intolerance is being perpetrated as part of a misguided attempt to confuse the common people for hindering the development and progress of the state," the press release says. DUTA also demanded a quick response to the administration to provide exemplary punishment for those who are involved in such heinous and illegal activities.